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Early Maidu pictures Illustration of grasshopper pits Photograph Notes: Caption below photo reads: Grasshopper Pitts--My-doo Indians DHill notes: 4-12 pits in a 8'-10' sq ft area Measurement of pits given as 20 x 30 Pits lined with soft clay, made so slick that insects could not crawl out Insects smothered, dried, stored for winter [and] later ground, mixed with little water, kneeded into cakes, [and] baked in baskets with dough [and] rocks W Harris pg 29 SI #4971 Photograph Source: Two sources listed: W Harris Pg 29 and SI {Smithsonian Institution #4971) MSS 160:135: 54 Black and white copy print ; 80 x 116 mm
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[item#] MSS 160 Dorothy M. Hill Collection, Meriam Library Special Collections, California State University, Chico. sc31361 http://archives.csuchico.edu/cdm/ref/collection/coll42/id/1454
