I can remember my grandmother’s all being around a table like this. They’d all conquer a project together. It wasn’t like one person struggling to get it done. A lot of them jumped in and said, “Well, I’ll do this.” They kind of did their own little additions to each project, which helped. This we carry on with my sister and my brothers. When they have a project they ask for help and we all jump in to conquer that project. Most of these projects as I’ve grown up there is not just one person working on them. There is my aunt, me, my mom, and as my sister got older my sister started adding things. Each piece is added even after years have gone by. This is actually taken from an old piece that my grandmother gave me when I was little. I was only like 4 or 5 when I got the leggings and the moccasins and hair ties. That was probably my first pieces. I’ve got the leggings in here but I had to redo them because through the years they have gotten really worn. But these are really old; they are probably older than I am. This design has come from my grandmother, one of her designs she did. What I did was remounted it, put it on new buckskin and then added more edging. This is some of my work up here. I kind of refurbished an old piece and make it usable again and then keep my grandmother’s work going. This is how it goes. Our ladies would wear the ties on the side. A lot of these women nowadays they wear the ties on the inside but our women didn’t wear them like that. There are a lot of reasons to that. Number one our women were horse riders and if you wear your legging on this way you’ll get hung up on something for sure and probably drug. That is why they are worn this way. They are usually tied but with today’s new inventions and what not you got the Velcro. I added that, that is not an old idea. It is pretty new stuff but I always put the ties on it just in case because as you dance it may come undone. You can’t always rely on soyaapo. You always have to go back to your old buckskin.