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medicine pipe † 
a pipe or calumet, believed to have magical properties and used in certain Indian rituals and ceremonies.
See also: calumet
- 1898, 1910 The wife of an Indian, named "Heavy Shield," at one time on her death-bed, as she thought, vowed that she would purchase a certain Medicine Pipe in the event of her recovery, and so become a member of the society.
- 1946 [Caption] The medicine pipe stem belonging to the head chief of all the Crees . . . is now in the Manitoba Museum.
- 1898, 1910 The wife of an Indian, named "Heavy Shield," at one time on her death-bed, as she thought, vowed that she would purchase a certain Medicine Pipe in the event of her recovery, and so become a member of the society.