wâunon- ‘honor’ + qussuk ‘stone’ =
wâunonaqussuk – ‘honoring stone’
"...a long, low boulder with many small, round
stones on top."
(Wawanaquas- sik, ‘place of many honoring stones,’- Nochpeem
Mahikkaneuw/Wappinger, Ruttenber 1992b:373). https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1202&context=bmas
Wawanaquasick,
stone-heaps on the north line, "here the Indians have laid several heaps
of stones together by an ancient custom among them;" (Page 19)
Wawanaquasick
“JOSEPH VAN GELDER – That he is Forty
Eight Years of Age He understood the Indian
language that he knows a place called Wawanaquasick it
lies between Claverack and Sheffield one Breakfast Travel from the River to
wawanaquasick. it lies about 9 or 10 Miles East from the River – has
seen it often has traveled. It lies upon the East part of a Hill has
heard of it high thiry Year ago from old Indians who told him it was
wawanaquasick and Said it was an old Place they had there, a great many years
ago – Old Nannahaken and old Skannout old Panneyote who were Ancient Indians
told him so. Old Skannout was quite grey with Years – Nanahacken
about 70 Years then, and old Skannout appeared older then Ampawekine called
Sankenakeke who was the Sachem of the Mohickens also told him of
it. He was then better than Sixty Years of Age, they were all of the
Mowhickens Tribe the Indians told him it was an offering
Place of their old fore fathers and a boundary between the tribes
Mohickens and the River Indians the Eastern Tribes was called
Mohigens and lived at Stockbridge he is sure – the Indians told him Wawanaquasick
was a boundary between the Mohicken and the River Indians they used
to join together when they went to war...”
Wawanaquasick ~ Location in
Town of Livingston, Columbia Co., N.Y.
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