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Title: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Subjects: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Ethnology Indians
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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reservation there is a double process: After being gathered, it istaken ashore, laid on birch bark or blankets spread on the ground,and dried by the sun. After being dried, which takes about twenty-four hours, it is placed in a large topper kettle and roasted o\er aslow fire, being continually stirred with a paddle until the hull isthoroughly roasted, when it is ready for hulling. On Moose-earriver, Barron county, Wisconsin, in 1892, after the grain was cut, tiedin bundles, and brought to the shore, it was spread on a long rack todry in the sun. The stalks were laid on the rack in two rows, eachhaving the heads in the .same direction. Next, a blanket was spreadon the ground, and a pole was placed with its lower end on the blanket,while the other end was held at a slight angle above. Over this polethe stalks, with the now dried fruit heads, were held, and the grain A view of the rice field after the grain has been gathered is shown in plate Lxxiv, a.^Neill, Memoir of the Sioux, p. 23G.
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JE.NKS) CURING AND DRYING 1065 wa.s beaten out with a stick. It was ayaiii dried or cured beforehulling, but the details of the proces.s could not be ascertained. The Winnebago, who .still gatter wild rice in large quantities, curethe gi-ain on a rack over a slow tire. In 1820 the Indians aroundSandy lake, Aitkin county, Minnesota, often cured their rice on ascaffolding- of .small poles about 3 feet high (see plates lxxiy?> andLxxvrt). This rack was covered with cedar slabs, upon which thegrain was spread. A slow tire was then kept burning beneath untilthe kernels were entirely dry. It recjuired about a day to dry a scaf-foldful. Again, mats were spread over a scaffolding, on which the ricewas put and cured by a ffre underneath. jNIarquette said that theIndians on Green bay cured their rice on a wooden lattice, under whichthey kept a small fire for several days, or until the grain was welldried.* By the Mississagua Indians about Rice lake, Ontario, tlie followingmethod was employed

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