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rogan
< Cdn F (h)ouragan < Algonk. ; cf. Ojibwa onagan bowl
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n.
See 1923 quote.
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1693
[20 Iivres de sucre et des petits houragans.]
1743
A Roggan. Slawee.
1791
We are obliged to roast all & make water by immersing red hot stones into a roggan of Snow.
1820
He had a wooden roggin which would hold about five gallons.
1887
At Fairford and the Little Saskatchewan . . . the Indians dry the whitefish by the fire and then pound it to pieces, and then put it into birch rogans, to keep for the winter use as food.
1923
There were rogans-- small bowls or buckets--of birch-bark, water-tight, pitched with spruce gum and sewed with spruce roots, the workmanship as delicate as in a fine Panama hat.
1957
[Caption] The bark rogan at bottom right bears the artist's signature, "P. Rindisbacher."