IROQUOIS USES OF MAIZE 65 



The large appetites of white men who visited them was often a 

 atter of surprise to the Indians who entertained them. Morgan^ 

 ►mmenting on this says that a white man consumed and wasted 

 ^e times as much as an Indian required. In a footnote^ he quotes 

 obertson as writing that the appetite of the Spaniards appeared 

 satiably voracious ; and that they affirmed that one Spaniard de- 

 Dured more food in a day than was sufficient for lo Americans 

 [ndians). 



The food and eating customs of the eastern Indians are described 

 ^ various early writers with some conflict of opinion, but in gen- 

 ral their system of free hospitality has the commendation of the 

 lajority of writers.^ 



There were and still are among the Iroquois, innumerable ways 

 f combining foods and several ways of cooking each variety, 

 learly all the early travelers expressed themselves as impressed 

 rith the number of ways of preparing corn and enumerate from 

 to 40 methods, though some are not so explicit.* 



TERMINOLOGY 



bod giik'wa' 

 breakfast (early morning meal) sede'tciane'gwa 



/[idday meal ha'de'wenisha 



mnset meal hega"gwaane'gwa' 



Appetite yeo"kwan'owas 



\. glutton ha'kowane' 



Come thou) eat (imper.) sedeko'ni 



eat aga'dekoni 



iovL eat e"sa'dekoni 



look (she cooks) yeko"'nis 



" (he cooks) ha'ko^'nis 



Hanging crane e"sa'''enondat 



<:ettle hook adiis'ha 



Oven yonta'gonda'gwa'ge 



1 Morgan. House Life of the American Aborigines, p. 60. 



^Ibid. p. 61. 



35-^^ Lahontan, 2:11; Van der Donck. N. Y. Hist. Soc. Cols. v. i, ser. 

 2, 192; Jesuit Relations, 67:141; Adair, p. 412; Bartram. Observations, p. 

 16 59 63- Smith. Virginia. Richmond ed. 1:83, 84; Heckewelder, p. 193; 

 Morgan. House Life, 45 et seq. ; Robertson. History of America, p. 178. 

 N. Y. 1856. . . _ . 



*" Forty-two ways," Dumont. Memoirs sur La Louisiane. Fans 1753- 

 1:33-34. Cf: Loskiel, p. 67; Adair, p. 409; "40 methods," Boyle, Report 

 for 1898; cf. Jesuit Relations, 10:103, "twenty ways." 



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