Corn
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Bags of Mealies Ready for Export, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of six men standing next to a stack of bags of mealies ready for export with a train car visible in the background in the early 20th century.
Custom about maidean bhuana [corn dolly], 7 August 1886
Custom probably collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, about maidean bhuana [corn dolly] which reads 'Saw two maidean bhuana in house of Don[ald] Maclean Tobermory. Try who can have it This again is given to horses in first sgriob turadh.' [Tobar Mhoire, Am Muile/Isle of Mull].
Dent Corn, 1870s-1930s
Three photographs of dent corn of both ears and stalks showing abnormalities.
Fragment of a song entitled 'Eireireadh', October 1892
Fragment of a song entitled 'Eireireadh' [eararadh or seeking] beginning 'Tha chuile te cho togarrach', S i togail ris na balachain' sung while dancing and referring to the beating of corn to take off the awn.
Indian Corn, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of three ears of Indian corn partially shelled to show the size of the cob to illustrate the best type having a deeper kernel.
Indian Corn - Butts and Tips, Showing the Good, Bad and Worse Kinds, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of the butts and tips of ears of Indian corn showing the good, bad and worst kinds in the early 20th century.
Indian Corn - Reid's Yellow Dent, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of an ear of Indian Corn - Reid's Yellow Dent - and examples of a 'well-filled tip and score-card butt.'
Maize at Mr. J G Brockman's, Vasse [Western Australia], 1870s-1930s
Image of four men standing in a field of maize at Mr. J G Brockman's farm in Vasse, Western Australia in the early 20th century.
Maize Planting, Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond, New South Wales, [Australia], 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a man using a hand plough harnessed to a team of horses to plant maize in a field at Hawkesbury Agricultual College, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia in the early 20th century.
Quote about cleaning and grinding corn, c1893
Quote about cleaning and grinding corn as it is carried out by women, taken from '[David] Livingstone's Last Journals Ulungu country p 214.'