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Mojave Desert Indians > MAP Mohave Indians MOJAVE ETHNOGRAPHY & ETHNOHISTORY Material Culture, Technology
Food Preparation and Acquisition
The Mojaves used rectangular blocks of
lava
as
metates
with a cylindrical muller to grind corn, wheat, and beans, but are unlikely to have brought these to the Project Area.
Here they probably used portable mortars and
manos
from locally available stone-if they did any grinding of these grains here. Stone pestles or long wooden pestles with
wooden mortars were used to grind
mesquite beans.
They "cooked" fresh screwbean meal by putting the beans in an enormous pit lined and covered with arrowweed, and
sprinkling them with water from time to time to turn them brown and sweet after "about a month".
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Desert Native American use of Plants In the desert, Indians found native plants and other natural objects that not only ensured their survival but also ... ![]() Mesquite screwbeans The Mesquite Tree Native Americans in some areas could have hardly survived without the mesquite. They would grind the pods into a ... ![]() Mesquite beans being ground in a metate with a mano Also see: Jedediah Smith Journal of the Mojave Desert Crossing, 1826 |
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