They are both made inside the Kiva, a traditional structure built underground and used for ceremonies by the Hopi people. ... The corn grinding is done by hand, using two grinding stones.

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Four is an important number to the Hopi, and these ears of corn represent not only the corn used by Hopis in their ceremonies and everyday life, ... Old grinding stones are used in the rock walls.

Because corn is their gift to the community, he said, people would sometimes come ask his mother for seeds or cornmeal for ceremonies. In Hopi society, which is matrilineal, the corn traditionally ...

Hopi corn has been found to have higher food value than other varieties of corn. Many aspects of the ceremonial calendar relate to the planting and harvesting of corn, and corn grinding is both a ...

Daylight had barely tiptoed in as I stood in the little cornfield south of Second Mesa, Ariz., last Saturday. Beyond the field, the husk-hued desert stretched far, far out to ...

Ann Tenakhongva, right, 62, and her husband, Clark Tenakhongva, 65, sort traditional Hopi corn at their home on First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona in late September, 2022.

MAYER – Some Indigenous farmers are trying to bring traditional food back to their communities. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a farmer from the Hopi Tribe, is focusing on bringing Hopi corn back to ...