Making Breakfast Illustration by Theodore De Bry, ca. 1690 The Yaocomaco witchotts are built in a circle with the doors facing a central area. This area is where much of the village activity takes place. The central area is kept very clean by all of the members of the village. Fences called palisades surround the village. These palisades are built for protection. Ho Nee Qua Tow begins her day by preparing her family's morning meal. She takes some cornmeal from a covered basket. She prepared the cornmeal yesterday by grinding up some sun-dried, shelled maize (Indian word for corn) with a mortar and pestle. She places the cornmeal in a clay pot. To this, Ho Nee Qua Tow adds some water. This makes a batter, which she makes into cakes. She puts the cakes on hot stones which she removes from the fire that is always kept burning in the witchott. You can see tools and utensils similar to those used by Ho Nee Qua Tow by going to a web site presented by the Madison, Wisconsin, public schools. The tools pictured on the web site were made by Aztalan Indians who lived near Madison.