Chapter IV: Corn 22-67

Planting 22
A morning’s planting 23
Soaking the seed 23
Planting for a sick woman 24
Size of our biggest field 24
Na´xu and nu´cami 25
Hoeing 26
The watchers’ stage 26
Explanation of sketch of watchers’ stage 28
Sweet Grass’s sun shade 30
The watchers 30
Booths 31
Eating customs 32
Youths’ and maidens’ customs 33
Watchers’ songs 33
Clan cousins’ custom 34
Story of Snake-head-ornament 35

Green corn and its uses 36-41
The ripening ears 36
Second planting for green corn 37
Cooking fresh green corn 37
Roasting ears 37
Mätu´a-la´kapa 38
Corn bread 38
Drying green corn for winter 39

Mapë´di (corn smut) 42
Mapë´di 42
Harvest and uses 42

The ripe corn harvest 42-47
Husking 42
Rejecting green ears 44
Braiding corn 45
The smaller ears 46
Drying the braided ears 47

Seed corn 47-49
Selecting the seed 47
Keeping two years’ seed 48

Threshing corn 49-58
The booth 49
Order of the day’s work 52
The cobs 53
Winnowing 54
Removing the booth 55
Threshing braided corn 57
Amount of harvest 57
Sioux purchasing corn 58

Varieties of corn 58-60
Description of varieties 58
How corn travels 59

Uses of the varieties 60-67
Atạ´ki tso´ki 60
Mäpi´ nakapa´ 60
Mä´nakapa 61
Atạ´ki 62
Boiled corn ball 62
Tsï´di tso´ki and tsï´di tapa´ 62
Mạdạpo´zi i’ti´a 63
Other soft varieties 63
Ma´ikadicakĕ 63
Mä´pĭ mĕĕ´pĭi’´kiuta, or corn balls 63
Parched soft corn 64
Parching whole ripe ears 64
Parching hard yellow corn with sand 64
Mạdạpo´zi pạ´kici, or lye-made hominy 64
General characteristics of the varieties 65
Fodder yield 66
Developing new varieties 66

Sport ears 67
Names and description 67
Na’´ta-tawo´xi 67
Wi´da-aka´ta 67
I´ta-ca´ca 67
Okĕi´jpita 67
I´tica´kupadi 67