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[Illustration: Maxi´diwiac, or Buffalobird-woman
AGRICULTURE OF THE HIDATSA INDIANS AN INDIAN INTERPRETATION
[Illustration: THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA]
MINNEAPOLIS Bulletin of the University of Minnesota November 1917
COPYRIGHT 1917 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
The field of primitive economic activity has been largely left uncultivated by both economists and anthropologists. The present study by Mr. Gilbert L. Wilson is an attempt to add to the scanty knowledge already at hand on the subject of the economic life of the American Indian.
The work was begun without theory or thesis, but solely with the object of gathering available data from an old woman expert agriculturist in one of the oldest agricultural tribes accessible to a student of the University of Minnesota. That the study has unexpectedly revealed certain varieties of maize of apparently great value to agriculture in the semi-arid areas west of Minnesota is a cause of satisfaction to both Mr. Wilson and myself. This fact again emphasizes the wisdom of research work in our universities. When, now and then, such practical dollar-and-cent results follow such purely scientific researches, the wonder is that university research work is not generously endowed by businesses which largely profit by these researches.
It is the intention of those interested in the anthropological work of the University of Minnesota that occasional publications will be issued by the University on anthropological subjects, although at present there is no justification for issuing a consecutive series. The present study is the second one in the anthropological field published by the University. The earlier one is number 6 in the _Studies in the Social Sciences_, issued March, 1916.
ALBERT ERNEST JENKS _Professor of Anthropology_
Turtle 9 Clearing fields 9 Dispute and its settlement 10 Turtle breaking soil 11 Turtle’s primitive tools 12 Beginning a field in later times 13 Trees in the garden 15 Our west field 15 Burning over the field 15
Remark by Maxi´diwiac 16 Planting sunflowers 16 Varieties 16 Harvesting the seed 17 Threshing 18 Harvesting the mapi´-na´ka 18 Effect of frost 18 Parching the seed 19 Four-vegetables-mixed 19 Sunflower-seed balls 21