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bled with the hands and then dried in the sun. This is stored for 

 winter and is cooked with three times as much water as corn. 



Nomushinta' tera is a bread made of skaa". 



Da" tera. This is a heavy bread, made of dried corn, pounded into 

 meal with a dumbbell-shaped pestle of wood in a vertical hollow log 

 mortar. A heavy batter is made and berries, fresh or dried, are added. It 

 is made into balls as big as the two fists or into flat cakes and boiled. 

 The writer has often eaten similar bread among the New York Seneca 

 and found it extremely palatable. 



Te' . Dried white flint corn is lightly pounded in a mortar which 

 has been slightly dampened, wood ashes being then added to remove 

 the hulls from the kernels. So treated, the kernels crack lengthwise, 

 into two pieces. The corn is then separated from the hulls, washed 

 and dried. It is cooked with more water and less seasoning than usual 

 and makes a milky variety of hominy. 



To" ta'. This, a form of parched corn, is first pounded in a wooden 

 mortar, until the husks are removed. Then it is cleaned in a sifting 

 basket and ground fine with a stone metate and muller. It is carried 

 in a deerskin bag b}^ travelers and warriors, who eat a very small 

 quantity at a time with water. 



Walnut and hickory nut meats are also ground, mixed with maple 

 sugar and added to this dish. 



Hunting Customs. It is said that when a Wyandot killed a bear 

 in former times, he elevated its severed head on a pole and addressed a 

 speech to it, apologizing to it for having been obliged to take its life. 

 It is said that the Wyandot never killed a female bear and were very 

 loathe to slay any female animal. There were other customs concerned 

 with deer and bear killing that are now forgotten. 



AN ARTIST AFIELD 



By George Peter^^ 



A field trip among our Indians is exceedingly interesting for an 

 artist because of the opportunities for sketching and studying these 

 people in their natural environment. It is not possible, however, to 

 obtain satisfactory results without a great deal of preliminary work 

 and careful planning. In arranging such a trip, to secure material 

 for one of the Indian groups, it is first necessary to get, from the 



'*Chief Artist, Milwaukee Public Museum. 



