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Corn was the staple of the Anasazi diet, whether green, ripe, or as here dried.
In the dry southwest climate it would keep for years. When ground into flour, it could be served up as flat baked breads or dough balls boiled in a stew.
HOPI (contraction of Hopitu, ''peaceful ones, " or Hopitushinumu, "peaceful all people" their own name). A body of Indians, speaking a Shoshonean dialect, occupying six pueblos on a reservation of 2,472,320 acres in northeastern part of this State. The name "Moqui," or "Moki," by which they have been popularly known, means "dead" in their own language, but as a tribal name it is seemingly of alien origin and of undetermined signification - perhaps from the Keresan language, whence Espejo's "Mohace" and "Mohoce" (1583), and Onate's "Mohoqui," 1598. Bandelier and Gushing believed the Hopi country, the later province of Tusayan, to be identical with the Totonteac of Fray Marcos de Niza. http://genealogytrails.com/ariz/hopi-indians.html
In the dry southwest climate it would keep for years. When ground into flour, it could be served up as flat baked breads or dough balls boiled in a stew.
HOPI (contraction of Hopitu, ''peaceful ones, " or Hopitushinumu, "peaceful all people" their own name). A body of Indians, speaking a Shoshonean dialect, occupying six pueblos on a reservation of 2,472,320 acres in northeastern part of this State. The name "Moqui," or "Moki," by which they have been popularly known, means "dead" in their own language, but as a tribal name it is seemingly of alien origin and of undetermined signification - perhaps from the Keresan language, whence Espejo's "Mohace" and "Mohoce" (1583), and Onate's "Mohoqui," 1598. Bandelier and Gushing believed the Hopi country, the later province of Tusayan, to be identical with the Totonteac of Fray Marcos de Niza. http://genealogytrails.com/ariz/hopi-indians.html