| 单词 | pedigree-stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspedigree-stick pedigree-stick n. (among certain Pacific peoples) a stick bearing carved markings which record genealogy or history. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [noun] > genealogical record > tree, diagram, etc. tree1297 pedigreec1425 Jesse1463 kindred's tree1605 birth brief1662 family tree1752 pedigree-stick1893 stemma1904 1893 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 22 319 Had the Polynesians any means of recording degrees of descent?.. Aufau fetii is ‘the genealogy of a family’, and must have been a staff bound in some especial manner to serve the purpose of a pedigree-stick. 1908 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics I. 826/2 Colley March first suggested that the carved shafts of the sacred paddles and adzes were pedigree-sticks, the patterns being ‘the multitudinous human links between the divine ancestor and the chief of the living tribe’. < as lemmas |
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