. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. nk, and then turn the bunches downward, leaving themto ripen on the stalks. This gives the party twisting the bunches, akind of pre-emption to so. much of the rice, which before was all com-mon.^ Carver said: Nearly about the time that it begins to turnfrom its milky ftate and to ripen, they run their canoes into the niidftof it, and tying bunches of it together juft below the ears with bark, 1 RocJman, letter, NoTember 11,1898; Schoolcraft, Summary Narrative, p. 130; Eleventh Census ofthe Unit
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. nk, and then turn the bunches downward, leaving themto ripen on the stalks. This gives the party twisting the bunches, akind of pre-emption to so. much of the rice, which before was all com-mon.^ Carver said: Nearly about the time that it begins to turnfrom its milky ftate and to ripen, they run their canoes into the niidftof it, and tying bunches of it together juft below the ears with bark, 1 RocJman, letter, NoTember 11,1898; Schoolcraft, Summary Narrative, p. 130; Eleventh Census ofthe United States, 1890; Indians, p. 340. = Hennepin, Nouvelle Deeouverte, p. 313* (fol. 0*4); Williamson, letter, November 30, 189S; Flint,Geography and History, vol. i, pp. 84-85; Martin Bressani, Relation AbrCgee de Quelques Missions,p. 332; Brown, Western Gazetteer, p. 267; Stnntz, letter, November 24,1898. Neill, in Macalester Hist., Lit., and ,scr, 1, number 10, St. Paul, 1890, * Edward Tanner, in Detroit Gazette, December 8,1820. Ellis, Recollections, p. JENKs] TYING IN SHEAVES 1059 leave it in this fituation two or three weeks longer, till it is perfectlyripe. About the latter end of September the_v return to the river, wheneach family having its feparate allotment, and being able to diftinguifhtheir own property by the manner of faftening the fheaves, gather inthe portion that belongs to them. E. 8. Seymour wrote: In thelirst place, to protect it from black birds, they collect the grain inbunches while the grain is in the milk, and cover each bunch with aband made of the bark of the linden or bass wood tree. The Ottawa Indians used to so tie the bunches that a pathwaj wasleft between the rows: Vn peu auparauant quelle monte en espj,les Sauuages vont en Canot lier en toulies Therbe de ces plantes, lesseparant les vnes des autres autant despace quil en faut pour Canot lors quils reuiendront en cucillir le grain. There is litt
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