antedating mariguana [marijuana] 1874

[Stephen Goranson]

OED has 1894 for "mariguan" under "marijuana." Several uses of the herb name
"mariguana" in English and Spanish predate 1894, including:

The native races of the Pacific States of North America.
Hubert Howe Bancroft
1874-1876
English Book Book 5 v. illus., fold. maps, fold. tab. 24 cm.
New York, D. Appleton and Co.
Vol. 1: Wild Tribes, 1874. Ch. 6: Wild Tribes of Mexico
p. 632:
...The Chichimecs cannot marry without the consent of parents....When a young
man desires to marry, his parents make a visit to the intended bride,
and leave
with them a bouquet of flowers bound with red [p. 633] wood; the
bride's parents
then send round to the houses of their friends a bunch of mariguana, a
narcotic
herb, which signifies that all are to meet together at the bride's father's on
the next night. The meeting is inaugurated by smoking; then they chew
mariguana, during which time all preliminaries of the marriage are settled....
note 23, with references to earlier literature; I didn't check the references,
but typed the text above from a 1874 paper copy]


Revista de España - Page 196, 1892 [Google Books full text]
Propiedades análogas tiene la mariguana, que fuman los indios de Méjico,
especialmente los de tierra fría, ...

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson/Celsus_of_Pergamum.pdf
"Celsus of Pergamum: Locating a Critic of Early Christianity"

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