DCHP-3

nekik

[< Algonk.: Ojibwa nekeek]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

the otter.

Quotations

1781
[This is called the Ne-keek Wine-e-cap or Otter Carrying place.]
<i>c</i>1902
All trapped between latitude thirty-five and sixty is good fur; and the best is that taken toward the end of winter when scarcely a russet hair should be found in the long over-fur of nekik's coat.