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skipertogan
[< Algonk; cf. Cree kuskipitakun]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a soft leather pouch, usually decorated, used by the Indians of the old Northwest to carry flint-and-steel, tinder, tobacco, etc.
See: fire-bag
Quotations
1748
To their Belt, with which they tie up their Coats, they have a bag hanging behind them, which they call a Skipper Toakin, containing a wooden Tinder-box, a Flint, and a Steel.
1795
They first begged me to lend them my skipertogan to fill a pipe of tobacco.
1819
He . . . desires them to bury him with his gun; shot-pouch, kettle, as also his skippertogan, containing his flint, steel, and touch-wood.
<i>c</i>1902
And somewhere, in side pockets or hanging down his back, is his skipertogan--a skin bag with amulet against evil, matches, touchwood, and a scrap of pemmican.