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war bonnet 
or cap a headdress used by Indians at war.
- 1808 (1897) Upward of 100 willows, about six feet long, with a fork about the middle, were stripped of their bark, and stuck in the ground. This, I am told, is for the purpose of hanging up their war-caps before attacking an enemy.
- 1923 They rode in irregular formation, with their eagle-feather war bonnets blowing in the breeze. . . .
- 1957 For himself he fashioned a war bonnet, and named it the "Red Pheasant."
- 1808 (1897) Upward of 100 willows, about six feet long, with a fork about the middle, were stripped of their bark, and stuck in the ground. This, I am told, is for the purpose of hanging up their war-caps before attacking an enemy.