Myaamia Miincipi: Miami Corn

Riley Theobald, Myaamia student, growing Myaamia Miincipi for her senior independent field study at Miami University in 2016.

In this image taken by Hugh Morgan, Mildred Walker is demonstrating how she was taught to plan miincipi.

Tools used to crush miincipi into a powder for cooking.

Tool used to crush miincipi into a fine powder for cooking.

Tool used to crush miincipi into a fine powder for cooking. Upright corn mortar (16½" diameter; 27" tall).

Tool used to crush miincipi into a fine powder for cooking.

Tool used to crush miincipi into a fine powder for cooking. Horizontal corn mortar (13-14" diameter; 32" long).

Baskets used for making miincipi flour.

Jaw of a deer used when making miincipi flour. Deer jawbone scraper (siinipiikiinkweehaakani) with at least 6 teeth.

After miincipi flour was made, this dish would be used to make cornbread.

Used to cook hominy; other various uses. Large flat bottom copper kettle. 18th-Century Hudson Bay Company kettle.

Informational Text

Recipe for hominy by Karen Baldwin.

Account from a French soldier describing myaamia miincipi

Describes the large corn fields planted and tended by myaamia people.