Cornhusk Earrings

Cornhusk Earrings is a named ancestral figure of the Mandan corn origin tradition recorded by Alfred Bowers from his Mandan informants. When the Corn People came up from their home beneath the earth bringing the corn with them, their chief Good Furred Robe was accompanied by his brother Cornhusk Earrings and by a younger brother called No Hair on Him or Head for Rattle. The three brothers stand at the head of the corn ceremonies, among the most valued rites instituted in early Mandan times, and the sacred corn bundle of the Mandan was said, as recently as 1948, to contain the skulls of Good Furred Robe and his brothers.

Domains

• corn and garden crops

Powers

• to keep the corn medicine rites of the emergence with his brothers

Relations

• sibling: Good Furred RobeCornhusk Earrings is named as a brother of Good Furred Robe, the chief who led the Corn People up from beneath the earth.Alfred W. Bowers, Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950. (secondary)
• sibling: Head for RattleThe youngest of the three corn-bringing brothers, called No Hair on Him or Head for Rattle, is his sibling in the emergence tradition.Alfred W. Bowers, Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950. (secondary)

Sources

• Cornhusk Earrings is one of the three corn-bringing brothers of the Mandan emergence tradition, a brother of the corn chief Good Furred Robe, whose skulls the Mandan corn bundle was said to contain as late as 1948.: Alfred W. Bowers, Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1950. (secondary); Elizabeth A. Fenn, Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People, New York: Hill and Wang, 2014. (secondary)