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‖ tikinagun, n. Canad.|tɪkəˈnɑːgən|
Also tikanagun, etc.
[Cree tihkina:kan, Ojibwa tikkina·kan.]
A type of baby's carrying cradle used by North American Indians; = cradle-board. Cf. moss-bag s.v. moss n.1 7 d.
1860J. G. Kohl Kitchi-Gami 7 You may roll an Indian tikinagan over as much as you please, but the child cannot be injured. 1905D. C. Scott New World Lyrics & Ballads 15 While the young chieftain Tugged at her breasts, Or slept in the lacings Of the warm tikanagan. 1959F. Bodsworth Strange One (1960) iii. xxiii. 177 There was a baby strapped in its cradlelike tikinagun on her back. 1975Globe & Mail (Toronto) 1 May w7 (caption) Custom of swaddling infant and carrying it in a tihkinakan may be one cause of hip deformities in Indians. |