| 单词 | paho |
| 释义 | paho, n. U.S.|ˈpɑːhəʊ|
Also baho, bahoo.
[ad. Hopi paáho.]
A wooden stick, decorated with plumes of feathers and usu. painted, used by the Hopi Indians as a prayer-stick in various rituals, esp. in their snake dance; also, a good-luck charm made in imitation of this.
1884J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis Arizona 174 This consecration of the bahos..was a prayer to the yellow clouds of the north..to come quickly and bring rain. 1893P. Moran in 11th Census Moqui Pueblo Indians (U.S. Census Office) 70, I tried to buy a bahoo of one of these attendants, but he declined to sell it, saying that if he did his stomach would burst open. 1898J. W. Fewkes in Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst. 1896 535 The priests made elaborate pahos or prayer sticks, some of which were several feet long, and painted them with..pigments, the same as those used by their descendants. 1912H. R. Voth Papers Field Museum Nat. Hist. clvii. 126 Each one, when done, smoked and spurted honey over his bahos or nakwakosis. 1979Arizona Highways Apr. 32/2 A paho dangles from his rearview window. 1987Resurgence Nov./Dec. 6/1 On the tree hung a paho, a feather charm, sign that Henry's garden was under the invisible protection of the spirits of the land. |
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