INTRODUCTION .-- These Dances in their purport and music are taken from the.
sacred rituals of the Omaha, the Osage and the Pawnee tribes.

The richness and beauty of symbolism in the original language suffer a loss of native naivete in their English interpretation.
The American food plant known by the general term "Corn" was developed ages ago from certain native grasses.

The _Euchlaena luxurians_ found in Guatemala is probably an ancestor of the maize.

The word "maize" belongs to the language of a people living by the Caribbean Sea and never was a universal term for corn among the Indians of our country.

The tribes to which maize was known gave it a name derived from their own languages.