ceremonial-pipe

Updated: May 26, 2025

The big council-lodge was erected everything was arranged the great ceremonial-pipe was filled and the council-fire kept smoldering. Many packages of beaver-skins were unloaded by squaws at the gate of the traders and all important persons foregathered in the lodge. When the pipe had passed slowly and in form the head-chief asked the trader if he saw beaver enough outside his window.

Frederic Remington - The Way of an Indian