Pile – Pille

Pile – Pille
“A mortar hollowed out of a section of a black gum or a cypress log, nearly three feet long. In
this kind of mortar the Acadians, like the Indians, pounded corn with a pestle (pilon) for the
purpose of making hominy.”
Read, William. Louisiana French. Revised Edition. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1931. Page 59.
Folklorist John Oswald Colson and friends continues in the tradition of making filé in the
traditional Cane River Creole manner. Les feuilles du sassafras sont ramassées et séchées, et
alors pilées avec un pilon et une pille.
En la langue Choctaw, sassafras s’appelle “iti kafi.”
Byington, Cyrus, John R. Swanton, & Henry S. Halbert. A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language.
Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 46. Washington:
Government Printing Office, 1915. Reprinted by Kessinger Legacy Reprints. Page 213.
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