mocockn.

1791 J. Long Voy. Indian Interpreter 117 We were reduced to a few fish and some wild rice, or menomon (which are kept in muccucks, or bark boxes).

1827 T. L. McKenney Sketches Tour to Lakes 194 A mocock is a little receptacle of a basket form, and oval, though without a handle, made of birch bark, with a top sewed on with wattap (the fine roots of the red cedar, split,) the smaller ones are ornamented with porcupines' quills, died red, yellow, and green.

1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xx. 138 The Indians bring in immense quantities [of whortle-berries] slung in panniers or mococks of bark on the sides of their wild-looking ponies.

1859 P. Kane Wanderings of Artist 32 My companion was cooking some fish in a moh-cock, Indian fashion (for we had lost our kettle).

1931 G. L. Nute Voyageur 80 In the spring maple sugar was also bought by the makuk (a birch-bark vessel) from the squaws.

1959 E. Tunis Indians iii. 53/1 By far the commonest birch-bark container was the mocuck, with a square bottom larger than its round top, that served as box or basket at need.

1978 J. A. Maxwell America's Fascinating Indian Heritage ix. 342/1 (caption) The bark..is resistant, making it a sturdy material for fashioning such objects as the mocock.., used for both solids and liquids.

1987 M. Kochanski Northern Bushcraft (1988) vii. 205 It is possible to make a waterproof mocock without having to pitch the seams if fresh bark is used.