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	Photographs - - 1908 - - Mammy Jumper pounding corn with mortar and pestle / photograph by M.R. Harrington. Author Harrington, M.R. Title Photographs - - 1908 - - Mammy Jumper pounding corn with mortar and pestle / photograph by M.R. Harrington. Date 1908 Notes Corn was an important agricultural product of the Seminoles. Corn becomes edible in May and June and was eaten boiled or roasted. When the corn ripened, a quantity of it was laid aside. The dried corn was ground up with a mortar and pestle made from a hollowed cypress log and a large wooden stick. Palmetto-stem baskets were used to sift the pounded corn to separate the meal from hard kernels. Ground corn was used in a variety of dishes. Subject Seminole Indians. Seminole cooking. Seminole Indians - - Food. Format Photographs Source Courtesy of the Patsy West Collection and the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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