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tion of clans into villages), even the clan fields must have been small 

 and so would have encouraged the isolation of strains.^ (S) Another 

 condition favorable to the restriction of the numlier of varieties of corn 

 was the ancient prejudice against taking seed from other communities. 



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Fig. C— A"m, Com plant. 



a, kuv, inflorescence, tassel; b, Mfey, inflorescence stalk; c, Voxclowh, husk of ear; d, k'oihk'apu, 

 stem of ear; e, Hu'uVowh, leaf-sheath'; f, pu'c, rootlets; g, kqtu, pollen; h, s^, silk; i, koii, ear; j, kuy, 

 cob; k, k'c, grains'; \, ka, leaf; ra, k'u'u, cornstalk; n, k'u'u'pug.l, base of cornstalk; o, pu, root. 



In New Mexico methods have been changed by the establishment 

 of villages near permanent streams and the consequent development 



1 We understand the nomenclature of Pueblo clans so slightly that it would be rash to assume that 

 clans called Early Corn, White Corn, and the like had specialized strains of corn when they joined 

 their pueblos. 



