Culinary Practices of the Mohave Indians (Pamphlet)

Description

Author: Stewart, Kenneth M.  (1916-1983)

Publisher: Museum of New Mexico

Pub Date: 1968

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No tears, bends, or folds.  El Palacio stamp on title page.  No covers.  Very light edge and corner wear.

Notes: Pamphlet (12 pages).  Offprint.  Originally printed in El Palacio, Vol. 75, No. 1, Spring 1968.  “Although the foodstuffs available to the aboriginal Mohave Indians of the lower Colorado River were relatively plentiful and varied, the Mohave did not possess a rich repertory of culinary techniques.  It has been estimated that as much as fifty percent of the Mohave diet consisted of cultivated foods.”  (Page 27).  Floodwater farming, maize, beans, pumpkins, wild grasses, wild game, fish, et al.