lummi stick

lummi stick
 n.— «Youngsters will learn to cook with a stick over an open fire, make a “lummi stick”—a cylindrical percussion instrument—and add a few words to their vocabulary from the WaWa jargon, a pidgin once used by Oregon native Americans, like the Chinook.» —“Children to learn ways of Chinook” News-Review (Roseburg, Oregon) June 13, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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