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Iroquois uses of maize and other food plants / by Arthur C. Parker.
LIBRA - Blank Collection E99.I7 P37 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Arthur C. (Arthur Caswell), 1881-1955.
- Series:
- Iroquois reprints 0714-7848.
- Iroquois reprints, 0714-7848
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian cooking.
- Indians of North America--Agriculture.
- Indians of North America.
- Iroquois Indians--Agriculture.
- Iroquois Indians.
- Iroquois Indians--Food.
- Ethnobotany.
- Corn.
- Indians of North America--Food.
- corn (seed).
- Penn Provenance:
- Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 120 pages, 30 pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Distribution:
- Ohsweken, Ont. : Reprinted and distributed for Iroqrafts by Ipacs Ltd.,
- Other Title:
- Iroquois uses of maize
- Place of Publication:
- Ohsweken, Ont. : Iroqrafts, Ltd., 1994.
- Contents:
- Part I. Maize. I. Maize or Indian corn in history; II. Early records of corn cultivation; III. Customs of corn cultivation; IV. Ceremonial and legendary allusions to corn; V. Varieties of Maize used; VI. Corn cultivation terminology; VII. Utensils for the preparation of corn for food; VIII. Cooking and eating customs; IX. Foods prepared from corn; X. Uses of the corn plant
- Part 2. Other Food Plants. XI. Beans and bean foods; XII. Squashes and other vine vegetables; XIII. Leaf and stalk foods; XIV. Fungi and lichens; XV. Fruit and berrylike foods; XVI. Food nuts; XVII. Sap and bark foods; XVIII. Food roots.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: Albany : University of the State of New York, 1910. (Education department bulletin / University of the State of New York ; no. 482) (Museum bulletin / New York State Museum ; 144).
- "July 1994."
- Catalogue Number 24-00109
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-113) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Fritz Blank in 2008.
- Kislak copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.
- ISBN:
- 0919645089
- 9780919645080
- OCLC:
- 871812907
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