When the threshing is finished, a puppet is made in the form of the animal, and this is carried by the thresher of the last sheaf to a neighbouring farm, where the threshing is still going on.
Quiona harvesting cna be complicated because the seeds do not all mature at the same time. Manual labor must harvest the seeds. If seeds ripen and are not harvested, they may fall of and be lost. It may be that harvesting must be done in a timely manner or some crop will be lost. The custome of brining the Corn Mother to a neighbor's field where harvest is not finished might encourage him to more effort. Procrastinators might suffer and this may be taken as support for the superstition.
