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Report a Mistake- Date Made 1912 or earlier
- Event --
- Affiliation Haudenosaunee culture
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Object Number III-I-294
- Place of Origin Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Ontario, Municipality - Grand River Reserve
- Category Food
- Sub-category Unprocessed food
- Department Ethnology
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1700/01/01
- Latest 1912/12/31
- Materials Corn
- Geo-Cultural Code III-I
- Measurements Length 21.5 cm, Outside Diameter 3.8 cm
- Caption Agriculture Spreads into Southern Ontario - image credit
- Additional Information CMH, III-I-294 (D2004-23515)
- Caption Agriculture Spreads into Southern Ontario
- Additional Information Agriculture began in earnest in southern Ontario with the introduction of beans, squash and, especially, maize (corn). Known as the Three Sisters, these crops were domesticated in Mexico in very ancient times, but required thousands of years of genetic manipulation before they could be fruitfully grown in a more northern climate. In the regions north of lakes Ontario and Erie, corn agriculture - and the more settled village life that it allowed - was particularly associated with the ancestors of the Huron-Wendat and other Iroquoian peoples.