In the morning the villagers spread all the corn cornels out in a thin layer across the ground. The purpose of this is to dry out the corn so that they can grind it to make corn meal (which is then used to make the mush that they eat at every meal). Then, as the sun is setting, they sweep it up into a nice pile. When we were in the village, we helped with this daily task. They let us do it because it is difficult to mess up and they didn't really have to explain anything.