Nor is it above two months since a serious loss befell him; indeed one of the most serious that could happen to an Indian--the loss of threecalumets at the same time.
Astonished at the facility with which we could fashion this kind of stone into any shape, most of the travellers made calumets of it.
But the greater number of these calumets could not withstand the action of the fire, and broke.
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.
The natives ornament theircalumets or pipes with the skin of their neck.
Feathered and painted, they were as expressionless as the stone calumets in their hands; by contrast, our French faces were childishly open and expressive.
The interest was centring in Starling, and the older men had their calumets in hand and were preparing for the council.
Of course, they are the calumets you are to use in the Council Fire ceremony to-night.
In the old days there were always two parties to this ancient Indian ceremony of peace: those bringing the calumets were called "the fathers" and those receiving them "the children".
They have another name, Betty, which isn't calumets and you know it, and we were to use them at our Council Fire to-night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calumets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
