OQ NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



In notifying people of the death feast an ear^ or kernel of corn 

 is given as a token. The person receiving it is bound to attend the 

 ceremony. 



The pulp of crushed green corn has been used effectively by the 

 Iroquois as a substitute for deer's brains as a filler in tanning skins. 



At the unveiling of the Mary Jemison monument in Letchworth Park 

 on September 19, 1910, a Seneca girl threw handfuls of Tuscarora 

 corn upon the grave and Mrs Thomas Kennedy, a Seneca and de- 

 scendant of Mary Jemison, made a short address, saying that as the 

 corn which Mary had so often planted sprang into life again, so it 

 was hoped that her spirit would blossom in the heaven world. 



6 Uses of corn leaves. Corn leaves, odio"'sa', newly torn from 

 the stalk are used as wrappings for green corn tamales, or boiled 

 cakes, onia"tcida.' (= folded braid of hair). The green corn cut 

 from the cob is thrown into a mortar and beaten into a paste and 

 wrapped in corn leaves which are doubled over and tied three times 

 laterally and once transversely. 



In the Jesuit Relations of 1652-53, a Jesuit Father relates that his 

 finger, the end of which has been cut off, was wrapped in a corn 

 leaf to staunch the flow of blood.^ 



1 Beauchamp. Am. Folk Lore Jour. 11:3. 



2 Jesuit Relations. 40:153. 



