tamanawas

[Alan Hartley]

Here are the "slips" I've sent to the OED for TAMANAWAS. (NEWS is OED's
"new words" database.)

TAMANAWAS                NEWS drafting, etym.
Chinook Jargon, from Sahaptin; cf. Sahaptin tamánwit ‘law, government’,
esp. that of Nature as spelled out by Coyote, the mythological emissary
of the creator and law-giver, who was known as tamanwilá, from tamánwi
‘create, ordain’ (and cf. Nez Perce tamálwi ‘lead, plan, legislate’)
note: based on email from Eugene Hunn, 30 April 2003, and on H. AOKI Nez
Perce Dict. (1994) 679

TAMANAWAS                NEWS drafting, quot.
1844 D. LEE & J. FROST Ten Years in Oregon 179
It is firmly believed that they [medicine-men] can send a bad
“tam-an-a-was” into a person, and make him die

TAMANAWAS                NEWS drafting, quot.
1844 D. LEE & J. FROST Ten Years in Oregon 283
there were but two men in the whole clan that had the Elk “tamanawas,”
that is, the spirit of the elk hunter

TAMANAWAS                NEWS drafting, quot.
1863 G. GIBBS Dict. Chinook Jargon p.?
Ta-máh-no-us, n.  Chinook, ITAMÁNAWAS.  A sort of guardian or familiar
spirit; magic; luck; fortune; anything supernatural.  One's particular
forte is said to be his tamahnous.
note: as transcribed in HTML at
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/6460/gibbs.htm

TAMANAWAS                NEWS drafting, quot.
1883? North-west Coast of America 8
Receiving a revelation is termed by the Makah, “seeing the Tamánawas”
(intermediate spirits).

TAMANAWAS                NEWS drafting, quot.
1883? North-west Coast of America 8
The ancient Tamánawas is termed Do-t’hlub

TAMANAWAS                NEWS drafting, quot.
1899? J. MCCULLAGH Indian Potlatch  20
49 VICT.., C. 43, S. 114. I. “Every Indian or person who engages in or
assists in celebrating the Indian festival known as the ‘Potlatch,’ or
the Indian dance known as the ‘Tamanawas,’ is guilty of a misdemeanor

TAMANAWAS                NEWS drafting, quot.
1990 Hdbk. N. Amer. Indians VII. 476/2
early observers usually referred to these [sc. spirit poers] by the
Chinook Jargon term tamahnous, as in “tamahnous dancing” or “tamahnous
spirit”