[Sidenote: 1874.]
“The Moquis still make very good cakes and still use the stone
‘metals’ for grinding corn and seeds as their ancestors did in 1541.
Their meal is reddish and purplish in color, and the bread or cake
is baked as a thin sheet, thinner than pie-crust, and afterwards
rolled into the shape of a banana. When I visited them with General
Crook in 1874, they used, besides corn, grass-seeds, acorns, and the
seeds of sunflowers, which they cultivated in large fields.”