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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See wild rice 1963 quote.
See: wild rice
Quotations
1665
We had there a kinde of rice, much like oats. It grows in the water in 3 or 4 foote deepe.
1775
The rice grows in shoal water, and the Indians gather it by shaking the ears into their canoes.
1963
[Caption] Kitchener Halkett illustrates dexterity required in brushing rice kernels into canoe bottom using set of wooden batons.