. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. , iHvh-LINED THRASHING HOLE FOR TREADING OUT THE GRAIN JENKs] METHODS OF THRASHING 1069 rice was hulled by trainping in a hole in the earth. The laborer wassupported by leaning upon a single stick or light post driven intothe ground. But the greater part of the crop, the fire-cured grain,was thrashed otherwise. Usually 15 to 25 bushels were dumped in aditch 10 or 15 feet long and 2 feet deep; then two men with crookedsticks, pa mil qwlhiniiq tih. flailed the hulls loose. High screens wereer
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. , iHvh-LINED THRASHING HOLE FOR TREADING OUT THE GRAIN JENKs] METHODS OF THRASHING 1069 rice was hulled by trainping in a hole in the earth. The laborer wassupported by leaning upon a single stick or light post driven intothe ground. But the greater part of the crop, the fire-cured grain,was thrashed otherwise. Usually 15 to 25 bushels were dumped in aditch 10 or 15 feet long and 2 feet deep; then two men with crookedsticks, pa mil qwlhiniiq tih. flailed the hulls loose. High screens wereerected on both sides of the ditch to check the flying kernels. At Fonddu Lac, Lake Superior, the grain is churned or poundedwith a stick shaped like a handspike, being largest at the hole is about knee-deep with a solid block in the bottom, thesides being lined with staves, after the fashion of a barrel and of aboutthe same diameter. Besides treading off the hulls the Indians at Lac Courte Oreillereservation thrash their grain with the churndasher-like sticks. Adeep hole is lined with the pr
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