Pollen also be sprinkled over heads or in mouths. Many Navajo people believe the body becomes holy when it travels over a trail sprinkled with pollen. Pollen Pollen is a fine to coarse powdery substance comprising pollen grains which are male microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce male gametes (sperm cells). Pollen grains have a hard coat made of sporopollenin that protects the gametophytes during the process of their movement from the stamens to the pistil of flowering plants, or from the male cone to the female cone of coniferous plants. If pollen lands on a compatible pistil or female cone,
Daniel Pollen May 1846, Pollen married Jane Henderson, the daughter of an officer of the Royal Navy (Lieutenant Essex, RN, of Demarara). He moved with her to Kawau Island in 1847, after becoming medical officer to a Scottish copper-mining company. Pollen spent several years on Kawau, during which time he began to contribute articles to "The New Zealander" supporting the agitation for responsible government. He was also to the fore in supporting temperance, scientific, and library movements there. When the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 became law, Pollen was made chief clerk in the Auckland Superintendent's office. From there, he rose through