Wawa Jargon/Ojibway

[Alan H. Hartley]

Ojibway apishimon 'bed' (Baraga _Dict. Otchipwe Lang._)

The earliest mention I've found is:

1734 in L. Burpee Jrnls. of de la Vérendrye (1927) 165
deux robbes de 12 castors chaque pour me servir d'apichimon (c'est à
dire de Lit et de couverture)

editor's trans.: "two robes of twelve beavers each, to serve me as an
apichimon (that is to say as bed and covering)"

The word came to mean 'saddle-blanket' from the northern Plains to the
Pacific.

Alan