IROQUOIS USES OF MAIZE 



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VIII COOKING AND EATING CUSTOMS 

 I Fire making. The precolonial method of producing fire was 

 of course by friction and there were a number of ways for this 



Fig. 14 Iroquois pump drill used for producing fire by friction. Collected by 

 L. H, Morgan, 1850. Specimen is 18 inches high. 



purpose. The most characteristic contrivance was the pump drill.^ 

 Morgan figured a pump drill in his report^ to the Regents of the 

 University. A pump drill is simply a weighted spindle of resinous 



1 Mason. Origin of Inventions, p. 88. 



2N. Y. State Cab. Nat. Hist. Third An. Rep't. Albany 1851. p. 



