Annual report . igure n and plate 18. Husk salt bottle, Ojiketahdawa. While not employed directlyas a utensil for preparing corn foods, the husk sa1t bottle was usedas a receptacle for the seasoning sub-stances used for giving an added flavorto soups, bread etc. made from bottle was made of corn husk in-geniously woven. The stopper was asection of a corncob. Corn husk bot-tles sometimes were woven so tightly, itis said that they would hold water. Onthe other hand the bottles were valuedfor their property of keeping the saltdry, the outer husk absorbing and hold-ing the moisture before
Annual report . igure n and plate 18. Husk salt bottle, Ojiketahdawa. While not employed directlyas a utensil for preparing corn foods, the husk sa1t bottle was usedas a receptacle for the seasoning sub-stances used for giving an added flavorto soups, bread etc. made from bottle was made of corn husk in-geniously woven. The stopper was asection of a corncob. Corn husk bot-tles sometimes were woven so tightly, itis said that they would hold water. Onthe other hand the bottles were valuedfor their property of keeping the saltdry, the outer husk absorbing and hold-ing the moisture before it reached thesalt within [see fig. 12]. The Iroquois have used these saltbottles within the last 10 years but onlya few are now to be found. The Iroquois say that they have not Fig. 1?.always used salt in the quantities whichthey now do and say that it has a debilitating effect upon them. Parched corn sieve, Yundeshoyondagwatha. This utensil wasfirst described by Morgan2 who collected a single specimen for the. Husk salt bottle. Cut is$ size of specimen. 1 Beverly in describing the eating customs of the Virginia Indians, says,The Spoons which they eat with do generally hold half a pint; and theylaugh at the English for using small ones, which they, must be forced tocarry so often to their Mouths, and their Arms are in Danger of beingtird before their Belly. 2 See Morgan. Fabrics of the Iroquois. State Cabinet of Nat. An. Rept 1852. p. 91. 58 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM Slate Museum in 1850. It consists of strips of wooden splints alittle more than an £ inch wide laid longitudinally, bound togetherwith basswood fastened tightly at either end making acanoe-shaped basket. It was used for sifting the ashes fromparched corn and for sifting out the unburst kernels from popcorn. The writer has not been able to collect another old specimenof this basket and was told that the hominy sieve is now usedinstead. The corn sieve is an interesting survival of a form of basket
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