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Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York State Museum
Subjects: New York State Museum Science Science
Publisher: Albany : University of the State of New York
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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is so nicely done that it seems like a tapestry hung the whole length
of the cabins. The grain being well dried and suitable to press (or
pound) the women and girls take out the grains, clean them and put
them in their large tubs (tonnes) made for this purpose, and placed
in their porch or in one corner of the cabins.¹
It, however, remained for Champlain to give us the first detailed
accounts of the cornfields and the methods of cultivation by the
Indians in the region of the St Lawrence and lower lake district.
Champlain in the beginning probably believed much as many per-
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1 The present citv of Hudson lies in latitude 42 ° 14'.
2 De Laet. New Netherlands. N. Y. Hist. Soc. Col. Ser. 2. X. Y. 1841.
O:300
3 Extract from the Journal of the Voyage of the Half Moon, Henry
Hudson, Master, From the Netherlands to the coast of North-America in
the Year 1609 by Robert Juet, Mate. Republished by the N. Y. Hist. Soc.
Col. Ser. 2. N. Y. 1841. 1 -.323.
4 Sagard. Voyage to the Hurons. (Le Grand Voyage du pays des
Hurons, 1632). Tross ed. Paris, 1865. 1:135

Plate I
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View of Seneca farm lands and cornfields in the Cattaraugus flats. This is a
typicial farm of the conservative Seneca. It may be regarded as typical also of the
Seneca farms of a century ago.

IROQUOIS USES OF MAIZE 17

sons do even now, that the Indians were hunters only but his changed
opinion is recorded as follows:

July the tenth, 1605.
They till and cultivate the soil, something which we have not
hitherto observed. In place of ploughs, they use an instrument of
hard wood, shaped like a spade. This river is called by the inhab-
itants of the country Chouacoet. The next day Sieur de Monts and
I landed to observe their village on the banks of the river. We saw
their Indian corn which they raise in gardens. Planting three or
four kernels in one place they then heap up about it a quantity of
earth with shells of the signoc before mentioned. Then three feet
distant they plant as much more, and this in succession. With this
corn they put in each hill three or four Brazilian beans which are
of different colours. When they grow up they interlace with the
corn which reaches to the height of from five to six feet; and they
keep the ground very free from weeds. We saw many squashes and
pumpkins and tobacco which they likewise cultivate . . .

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