Annual report . IROOUOIS USES OF MAIZE 49 Mullers and mealing slabs are commonly found on Iroquois vil-lage sites and sometimes may be picked up near log cabin sites on thepresent reservations. The Iroquois probably did not use the longcylindrical pestles to any great extent, as did the New York Algon-qnins as late as the Revolutionary War. Mr Harrington found one of these cylindrical pestles among thedescendants of the Shinnecock at Southampton, Long Island, to-gether with a small wooden mortar. The Minisink Historical So-ciety has one which was given an early settler by the Minsisbefo
Annual report . IROOUOIS USES OF MAIZE 49 Mullers and mealing slabs are commonly found on Iroquois vil-lage sites and sometimes may be picked up near log cabin sites on thepresent reservations. The Iroquois probably did not use the longcylindrical pestles to any great extent, as did the New York Algon-qnins as late as the Revolutionary War. Mr Harrington found one of these cylindrical pestles among thedescendants of the Shinnecock at Southampton, Long Island, to-gether with a small wooden mortar. The Minisink Historical So-ciety has one which was given an early settler by the Minsisbefore the Revolutionary War. Hulling basket, YegaitoataV The Seneca word for hullingbasket means it zvashes corn. This basket is woven with tight sides. fuunilFig. 6 Technic of the hulling basket and a coarse sievelike bottom. It is about 18 inches deep and asmany broad at the top tapering down to 12 inches at the bottom. Inthis basket is put squaw or hominy corn after it has been boiled inweak lye to loosen the hulls and outer skin. The basket of corn isthen soused up and down in a large tub of water until all the hullsare free and have floated off in the many rinse waters. The details of weaving the hulling basket are shown in figure 6and the basket itself in plate 13. Hulling baskets are made in fourstyles; without handles of any sort; with handles made by openingsin the body of the basket just below the rim; by raised loop handlesmade by fastening pieces of bent wood through the rim and into thebody of the basket; and by a raised handle that arches from sideto side. For the various styles see figure 7. This type of basket is 1 Yegahredandakwa in Mohawk. 50 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM widely found among the eastern Indians although the I
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