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pogamagan
[< Algonk.: Ojibwa or Cree]
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See casse-tête quotes. [See picture at casse-tête.]
See: casse-tête
Quotations
<i>c</i>1787
. . . they dashed at the Peeagans, and with their stone Pukamoggan knocked them on the head.
1789
The pogamagan is made of the horn of the rein-deer, the branches being all cut off, except that which forms the extremity.
<i>c</i>1804
In war, they use the pocomagan, a very destructive weapon; it consists of a piece of wood, a foot and a half long, curved at one end, with a big heavy knob, in which is fixed a piece of long sharp iron.
1859
. . . one chief . . . dashed madly into the midst of his enemies, dealing death around him with his poke-a-mau-gun or war club.
1912
[The] carved, often flattened, club . . . includes the flat curved club with a knobbed head (Alg. pogamoggan, Fr. cassetete) belonging to some Sioux, and to the Chippewa, Menominee, and other timber Algonquians.