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rabbit stick

noun

rabbit stick

noun
1

A curved stick similar to a boomerang, used by the Hopi, Navajo, and Zuni to hunt rabbits, prairie dogs, and coyotes.

  • The Zuñi rabbit stick (kleane) is colored black and carmine, the war god’s colors.1918, American Anthropologist (American Ethnological Society, Anthropological Society of Washington), volume 20, (January–March)
Synonyms
kleane, throwing club, throwing stick

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