. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] HICKORY HIDATSA 547 Black house.—Lawsoii (17U), Hist. Carolina, 45, 1860 (so called by traders). Hickerau.—Ibid. Hickory. A walnut tree belonging to any one of several species of the genua Hicoria. The word is spelled by early writers in a great variety of w'ays: po- Mckery (Farrar, 1653), pekickery (Shrig- ley, 1669), peckikery, pokickery, hickorie, hiccora, hiccorij, hickory (1682), etc. Capt. John Smith (Hist. Va., ii, 26, 1624) describes pav)cohiccora, a food of the Algonquian Indians of Virginia, as a preparation of pounded walnut kernels with water. From
. Bulletin. Ethnology. BULL. 30] HICKORY HIDATSA 547 Black house.—Lawsoii (17U), Hist. Carolina, 45, 1860 (so called by traders). Hickerau.—Ibid. Hickory. A walnut tree belonging to any one of several species of the genua Hicoria. The word is spelled by early writers in a great variety of w'ays: po- Mckery (Farrar, 1653), pekickery (Shrig- ley, 1669), peckikery, pokickery, hickorie, hiccora, hiccorij, hickory (1682), etc. Capt. John Smith (Hist. Va., ii, 26, 1624) describes pav)cohiccora, a food of the Algonquian Indians of Virginia, as a preparation of pounded walnut kernels with water. From the cluster words pa ir- cohiccora, etc., transferred by the whites from the food to the tree, has been de- rived Jik'kory. Derivative words and terms are: Hickory-borer {CyUeiiepicta), hickory-elm ( Ubmis racemosa), hickory- eucalj'ptus {Eucalj/ptus 2}unctata), hick- ory-girdler {Oncideres cingidatus), hick- ory-head (the ruddy duck), hickory nut (the nut of the hickory, specifically of Hicoria ovata or H. laciniosa), hickory-oak (Quercus chrysolepis), hickory-pine {Pimii^ balfouriana and P. pungens), hickory pole (a Democratic party emblem), hickory poplar {Liriodendron tnUpifera), hickory- shad (the gizzard-shad), hickory shirt (a coarse cotton shirt). As an adjective the word hickory took on the sense of firm, un- yielding, stubborn, as applied to religious sectarians, members of a political party, etc. Gen. Andrew Jackson was called "Old In Waterloo co., On- tario, according to W. J. Wintemberg, the German residents call a Pennsylvania German a Hickory, possibly in reference to their fellows in Pennsylvania having voted the Jackson ticket. (.\. f. c. ) Hickory Indians. A small band for- merly occupying a village near Lancaster, Pa. (Day, Penn., 397, 1843). Probably a part of the Delawares. Hickory Log. A former Cherokee set- tlement on Etowah r., a short distance above Canton, Cherokee co., Ga.— Mooney in 19th Rep. B. A. E., 545, 1900. Wane'-asun'tluny
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