Education Department Bulletin 



Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter June 24, igo8, at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., 

 under the act of July 16, 1894 



No. 482 



ALBANY, N. Y. 



November i, 1910 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 



Museum Bulletin 144 



IROQUOIS USES OF MAIZE AND OTHER 

 FOOD PLANTS 



BY 



ARTHUR C. PARKER 



Prefatory note 5 



Part I Maize 9 



I Maize or Indian corn in 



history 9 



II Early records of corn culti- 

 vation 15 



III Customs of corn cultiva- 



tion 21 



IV Ceremonial and legendary 



allusions to corn 36 



V Varieties of maize used.. 41 

 VI Corn cultivation termin- 

 ology 44 



VII Utensils for the prepara- 

 tion of corn for food. . . 45 

 VIII Cooking and eating cus- 

 toms 59 



PAGE 



IX Foods prepared from 



corn 66 



X Uses of the corn plant. 80 



Part 2 Other food plants .-. 89 



XI Beans and bean foods. . 89 

 XII Squashes and other vine 



vegetables go 



XIII Leaf and stalk foods. . . 93 



XIV Fungi and lichens 93 



XV Fruit and berrylike 



foods 94 



XVI Food nuts 99 



XVII Sap and bark foods 102 



XVIII Food roots 104 



List of authorities quoted no 



Index 115 



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ALBANY 



UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK ^ 



UEC 2 1 .0 



1910 



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