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huskanaw, -oy|ˈhʌskənɔː, -ɔɪ|
[American Indian.]
The ceremony or ordeal, formerly in use among the Indians of Virginia, of preparing young men for the duties of manhood by means of solitary confinement and the use of narcotics. So huskanaw, -oy v., to subject to this treatment.
1705R. B. Beverley Virginia iii. ⁋32 (1722) 177 The Solemnity of Huskanawing is commonly practis'd once every fourteen or sixteen Years... The choicest and briskest young Men..are chosen out by the Rulers to be Huskanawed. Ibid. 179 The Appamattucks, formerly a great Nation, tho' now an inconsiderable People, made an Huskanaw in the Year 1690. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Huskanawing, a Solemnity practised by the Virginian Indians... It is an Institution or Discipline that all young Men must pass under before they can be admitted to be of the Number of Great Men, Officers, or Cockarouses of the nation. 1788T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) II. 444 So much out of his element that he has the air of one huskanoyed. |