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skipertogan [< Algonk; cf. Cree kuskipitakun] Hist. 
n. a soft leather pouch, usually decorated, used by the Indians of the old Northwest to carry flint-and-steel, tinder, tobacco, etc.
See also: fire-bag
- c1902 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.
- 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 (1911) 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.
- c1902 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.