THE OLD AND THE NEW IN CORN CULTURE

 

From the Yearbook of the United States Department of Agriculture 1918
page 3a

By H. Howard Biggar,
Office of Corn Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry.

FIG.1— TYPES OF CORN RAISED BY THE INDIANS OF THE SOUTHWEST.
From left to right: Navajo birdsegg, Navajo yellow, Navajo white
Hopi yellow, Hopi white, Hopi blue, Hopi black


FIG. 2.—CORN HUSKING AND SCRAPING TOOLS>
(a) An Indian's corn-husking pin made of bear bone.
(b) A white man's imitation of the above.
(c) A scraper made from a deer's jaw and used by the
Iroquois Indians for removing green corn from the cob.
(Courtesy of the Canada Geological Survey.)