Annual report . s a filler in tanning skins. At the unveiling of the Mary Jemison monument in Letchworth Parkon September 19, 1910, a Seneca girl threw handfuls of Tuscaroracorn upon the grave and Mrs Thomas Kennedy, a Seneca and de-scendant of Mary Jemison, made a short address, saying that as thecorn which Mary had so often planted sprang into life again, so itwas hoped that her spirit would blossom in the heaven world. 6 Uses of corn leaves. Corn leaves, odiollsa., newly torn fromthe stalk are used as wrappings for green corn tamales, or boiledcakes, onia/tcida (= folded braid of hair). The
Annual report . s a filler in tanning skins. At the unveiling of the Mary Jemison monument in Letchworth Parkon September 19, 1910, a Seneca girl threw handfuls of Tuscaroracorn upon the grave and Mrs Thomas Kennedy, a Seneca and de-scendant of Mary Jemison, made a short address, saying that as thecorn which Mary had so often planted sprang into life again, so itwas hoped that her spirit would blossom in the heaven world. 6 Uses of corn leaves. Corn leaves, odiollsa., newly torn fromthe stalk are used as wrappings for green corn tamales, or boiledcakes, onia/tcida (= folded braid of hair). The green corn cutfrom the cob is thrown into a mortar and beaten into a paste andwrapped in corn leaves which are doubled over and tied three timeslaterally and once transversely. In the Jesuit Relations of 1652-53, a Jesuit Father relates that hisfinger, the end of which has been cut off, was wrapped in a cornleaf to staunch the flow of 1 Beauchamp. Am. Folk Lore Jour. 11:3. 2 Jesuit Relations. 40:153. o5. Ph o
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