DCHP-1 Online

rogan < Cdn F (h)ouragan < Algonk. ; cf. Ojibwa onagan bowl

• n. See 1923 quote.

  See also: birchbark rogan  birch rogan  mocock  

  • 1693  (1955)  [20 Iivres de sucre et des petits houragans.]
  • 1743  (1949)  A Roggan. Slawee.
  • 1791  (1934)  We are obliged to roast all & make water by immersing red hot stones into a roggan of Snow.
  • 1820  (1963)  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."