Identifier: annualreport6421910newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Museum
Subjects: New York State Museum Science Science
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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IROQUOIS USES OF MAIZE 89 Part 2 NOTES ON CERTAIN FOOD PLANTS USED BYTHE IROQUOIS XI BEANS AND BEAN FOODS Beans next to corn were regarded as a favorite food and quanti-ties are still eaten. The Iroquois have 10 or more varieties of beanswhich they claim are ancient species which have long been culti-vated. Some are said now to be cultivated only by the Iroquois. The cornstalk bean,1 oageka, is thought by the Seneca to be themost ancient bean and perhaps the species which grew from theEarth-Mothers grave. The bean is an indigenous American plant, at least it grew herein Precolumbian times. Explorers and early writers have left usmany references to it and most agree that it is an American plant. Varieties of Iroquois beans Beans, osaida Bush beans degagaha Wampum otgoa osaida Purple kidney aweondago11 White kidney osaiMagan Marrowfat osaidowanes _ . f otgonwasaganon String J f.., , I odji stanokwa Cornstalk oageka Cranberry hayukosaiMat Chestnut lima oniista Hummingbird djutowendo11 Wh

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