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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i Vegetable storage pits near Chief E. Cornplanters house, CattaraugusReservation. 2 Seneca corncrib on the James Sandy place, CattaraugusReservation
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in IROQUOIS USES OF MAIZE 4 I V VARIETIES OF MAIZE USED BY THE IROQUOIS ANDOTHER EASTERN INDIANS I Varieties mentioned by historians. Few authorities agree asto the varieties of Indian corn. Beverly1 mentions four sorts among the Virginia Indians, two of which he says are early ripe andtwo late ripe. He describes the four varieties carefully and ends bysaying that his description is without respect to what he calls the accidental differences in color, some being blue, some red, someyellow, some white and some streaked. He continues that the realdifference is determined by the plumpness or shriveling of thegrain. To him the smooth early ripe corn was flint corn and theother . . . with a dent on the back of the grain . . . they call she-corn. This is probably the Poketazves of the Powhatan Indians. In Harriss Discoveries2 is another description of corn giving thevariety of colors as red, white, yellow, blue, green and black andsome speckled and striped but the white and yellow are mostc

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