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wabbano
[< Algonk.; cf. Ojibwa wāpano I am a conjurer, Cree wapun, wabun dawn]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1an. — Hist.
among certain Indians, a ritual that involves singing, dancing, and conjuration, usually held in the spring and fall.
Quotations
1800
He has given my hunter an elegant drum, trimmed with all the symbols of the wabbano medicine.
1802
The Indian tribes, having finished the grand medicine, are making the wabbano.
1905
Outside the noise had increased, and the babel of voices came to them distorted and strange, mingled with curses and the sounds of the Indian wobbano songs.
1931
[We have] for neighbours a people who carry drums to celebrate the Wabeno and wear charms to ward off evil spirits. . . .
1bn. — Hist.
a session of heavy drinking that accompanied the trading activities when Indians or others visited a post.
See: boisson
Quotations
1951
The great wabbano went merrily on.
1956
They would all have a grand wabbano and they would relive in pantomime and song their feats of heroism in battle. . . .
2n.
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Quotations
<i>c</i>1804
The Wabanoe is another order of imposters who pretend, by virtue of their medicine bags, to baffle all the secret machinations of their most inveterate enemies, and even to kill them at pleasure without being detected.
1852
A society named Wabuno is said to have been formed among the Chippeways, for the practice of certain nocturnal orgies called Wabunsi. . . .
1935
If a man were very ill, and all remedies had failed to heal him, the wabeno might place him beside the fire before the ceremony. . . .