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pogamagan [< Algonk.: Ojibwa or Cree] Obs.

• n. See casse-tête quotes. [See picture at casse-tête.]

  See also: casse-tête  

  • c1787  (1916)  . . . they dashed at the Peeagans, and with their stone Pukamoggan knocked them on the head.
  • c1804  (1890)  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.
  • 1789  (1801)  The pogamagan is made of the horn of the rein-deer, the branches being all cut off, except that which forms the extremity.
  • 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  (1913)  [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.