TAGS:\u00a0<\/strong>corn husks; corn; crafts; industrial arts instruction; Industrial Arts Cooperative Service; New York City; Pine Mountain Settlement School; Harlan County, KY; rugs; weaving; baskets; dolls; tamales; teachers; children; education;\u00a0industrial arts;<\/p>\n INDUSTRIAL ARTS COOPERATIVE SERVICE – CORN HUSKS<\/strong><\/p>\n corn_husks_cover<\/p><\/div>\n This small publication about corn husk crafts was of much interest in the first years of the twentieth-century and much earlier.\u00a0 Corn husks, like many agricultural products were fully utilized and\u00a0 recycled for many uses.\u00a0 The costs of material was low and the products were certainly biodegradable.<\/p>\n The Industrial Arts Cooperative Service at 519 West 121st St., New York City produced a series of “How-To” guides for teachers and children that suggested ways to use corn husks and other natural products.\u00a0 This guide, “Corn Husks” was one which was created<\/p>\n FOR TEACHERS This guide, located in the archive at Pine Mountain School, joins other craft instruction booklets that were consulted in the creation of crafts at the School during the boarding school years.\u00a0 Unlike many other “How-To” books, this small book and other books and pamphlets produced by the Industrial Arts Cooperative Service also focused on craft as a means of acquainting children with other races and cultures. As they explain it in their sales pamphlet<\/p>\n These studies and materials are planned for the teacher’s use under two <\/em> This small instructional guide called “Uses of Corn Husks” by Agnes Davis Kim tells the instructor that<\/p>\n The Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere not only developed and utilized the indigenous maize\u00a0or Indian corn for <\/em>food ,\u00a0but every part of the plant was utilized. The following directions give some possibilities for the use of corn husks not only in Indian <\/em>ways, but in ways that the later Whites and Blacks have used them.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Davis then continues with her instruction of harvesting and curing the husks, general directions for working with the husks and then she provides specific instruction for making items such as the following<\/p>\n ITEMS [Table of contents]<\/p>\n Crocheted Mats GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t
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\nMORE IDEAS
\nFOR CHILDREN
\nMORE OPPORTUNITY<\/p>\n
\ntypes of organization:
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\n1. That in which the progress of the race in one specific activity is <\/em>to be experienced by children, as in Books Now and Long Ago. <\/em>
\n2. That in which the varied activities of a single people are to be ex<\/em>perienced by children, as in Navajo Life. <\/em>Also provision is made for: <\/em>Studies, Materials, Books <\/em>and Pictures used in any and all experiences.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWeaving Door Mats
\nMaking and Setting up a Simple Frame Loom
\nMaking Corn Husk Baskets
\nMaking Dolls
\nJust Dolls
\nHot Tamales
\nMaking the Tamale<\/p>\n
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