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pesogan
[< Algonk.: Cree]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
dried fungus used as punk. Various Spellings.
Quotations
1743
This posogan when once Light is Very Difficult to put out, if not tak'n in time, and if not put out will Clow and Bur'n tell quite Consum'd to ashes and never Blaze.
1795
The Indians, both Northern and Southern, have found by experience, that by boiling the pesogan in water for a considerable time, the texture is so much improved, that when thoroughly dried, some parts of it will be nearly as soft as sponge.
1819
The perogan [sic], or tinder, the Indians make use of, is a kind of fungus that grows on the outside of the birch tree.
1959
The bit of tinder wedged in the board below this bow-drill fire-maker is dried bracket fungus, called "pus-sag-on."