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kasagea
[< Esk.; cf. Barrow Esk. gasigiaq]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:kashogiak, kossegear, kussegear
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a small seal, Phoca vitulina, common on the East Coast.
See: harbo(u)r seal
Quotations
1852
Spotted seal kassigi-ak.
1864
The skins were of a kind of seals called by the natives kus-se-gear, which has softer hair than some other species, and visits salt and fresh water alike.
1882
The finest quality of kossegear skins I have seen were killed in Hudson's Strait.
1942
When the inlanders hunt kasagea in summer, they lie in ambush and shoot those animals that come to sun on shore.