Ear of corn, light yellow, 10 rows, 7" long, 1 3/8" maximum diameter. Small butt and small stem. Flour corn, broad shallow grain with a flat top.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Mojave Desert, Southeastern California
Verbatim coll. place:
Southwest
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
1904
Taxon:
Zea mays
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Botanical samples
Function:
8.1 Foods
Accession date:
1904
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Comment:
Atypical "Pima-Papago" corn in that it is longer than the average. In all other respects it is typical of the corn grown by all Yuman tribes of the Colorado river and of the Pima and Tohono O'odham.