"Yannigan bag"?

[Douglas G. Wilson]

A while back --

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0301A&L=ads-l&P=R378

-- "yannigan bag" was mentioned as a supposed ancestor of the baseball
"yannigan".

I don't know whether anybody ever found any trace of "yannigan bag", but I
happened across this word which may be related somehow:

 From MW3:

<<

wanigan or wannigan ... noun ... of Algonquian origin; akin to Abnaki
_waniigan_ trap, literally, that into which something strays ...

1 : a chest for supplies

2 : a shelter for sleeping, eating, storage, or office space often mounted
on wheels or crawler tracks and towed by tractor or mounted on a raft or boat

3 : debts incurred by lumbermen at a company store

 >>

I have seen "wannigan" used to mean "houseboat". Can't remember where now.
Judging from the senses above maybe the basic sense is/was "carryall" or so.

I don't see any connection to the baseball "yannigans".

-- Doug Wilson