It is all unfortunate, for poor Elihu Burritt will never be persuaded that he is a subject of derision only, instead of admiration; that men pause to regard him as a miracle of conceit and assurance rather than as a prophet; and that his commonplaces about "olive leaves," "calumets," ❋ Various (N/A)
Then the bearers took up the "calumets" and moved with slow rhythmic steps toward the crying child, singing as they went and swaying the sacred symbols to the measure of this song. ❋ Unknown (1880)
The leaping flames from the central fire lit up the faces of the hundreds of men and women; while the swaying feathers of the "calumets" cast great wing-like shadows on the glistening roof, and seemed to make real the symbolic presence of the mighty eagle himself, circling over the people as he sped on his mission, bearing the benediction of good will among men. ❋ Unknown (1880)
As the "calumets" passed slowly by, the people took up the choral, until at last the great lodge resounded with its majestic cadences. ❋ Unknown (1880)
The fan-shaped pendant of one of these "calumets" was made of the feathers of the golden eagle. ❋ Unknown (1880)
The following choral was sung immediately after the "calumets" had been ceremonially taken from their resting-place, with movements that simulated the eagle rising from its nest. ❋ Unknown (1880)
Over this skin, which had its symbolic meaning, the bearers waved the "calumets," imitating the movements of the eagle, sweeping lower and lower, rising and circling again, and then dropping lightly upon its nest. ❋ Unknown (1880)
To understand the significance of these songs, it should be known that two distinct groups or parties were indispensable to the performance of the ceremony; namely, they who brought the "calumets" and they who received them. ❋ Unknown (1880)
Many times I have witnessed this ceremony and joined in its beautiful chorals, led by the bearers, who swayed the "calumets" to the rhythm of the song, wafting over the heads of the people the blessing of peace. ❋ Unknown (1880)
Different names were given to these peculiar objects by the different tribes; and they were classed by our early travellers with the "calumets," or pipes of peace, although they were not pipes, for they had no bowl and could not be smoked. ❋ Unknown (1880)
It was due to the presence of one of these so-called "calumets" in ❋ Unknown (1880)
The words of this choral refer to the blessing of peace given to "the fathers" in ancient days, and now brought by the symbolic "calumets" to "the children." ❋ Unknown (1880)
The bearers then faced the people, seated on the ground against the wall of the lodge, and with slow rhythmic steps moved around the circle, waving the "calumets" over the heads of the multitude. ❋ Unknown (1880)
"calumets" four times around the lodge, singing as they went and waving the blessing of peace and fellowship over the heads of "the children," they paused as they reached a consecrated place at the back of the lodge, facing the entrance to the east. ❋ Unknown (1880)
"calumets" were laid at ceremonial rest, -- they sang this song, thus passing on to Kawas the appeal of the parents. ❋ Unknown (1880)
The natives ornament their calumets or pipes with the skin of their neck. ❋ -1775 Le Page Du Pratz (N/A)
Round his bed were placed all the calumets of peace he had received during his life, and on a pole, planted in the ground near it, hung a chain of forty-six rings of cane painted red, to express the number of enemies he had slain. ❋ -1775 Le Page Du Pratz (N/A)
Make you calumets of pipe-stone, pledge you peace and love divine, ❋ Cordenio A. Severance (N/A)
The interest was centring in Starling, and the older men had their calumets in hand and were preparing for the council. ❋ Alice Prescott Smith (N/A)
Feathered and painted, they were as expressionless as the stone calumets in their hands; by contrast, our French faces were childishly open and expressive. ❋ Alice Prescott Smith (N/A)
