Rio Grande White Corn

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Title

Rio Grande White Corn

Subject

UMMAA #15443

Description

Scientific Name: Zea mays
Hopi Name from 1935 field notes: Hopakq3ccaka3 (Eastern white corn)
Source of Seeds: Pure strain. From Rio Grande Pueblos. Following the famine.
Crop Management: Long season corn
Remarks: Hardly any difference between this and the Hopi type. Used to be a larger variety

Source

Orayvi
Navajo County, AZ

Date

October 29, 1935

Contributor

Alfred Whiting, Volney Jones, Edmund Nequatewa

Relation

Museum of Northern Arizona B.1819