This is also getting back into more contemporary using hemp and also using Pendleton Wool. And doing different designs, different shapes. Then using the cornhusk where it is altogether. This is just sort of a plain, twiney and twisty and this is cornhusk, it lays different. This is cornhusk and when I started getting back into cornhusk this is what my mother kept wanting me to do because she figured I’d be the only one to do it. My sisters don’t get involved with this stuff. She took me to visit with Katherine Ramsey and Katherine was filling me in. She brought out all her bags, she showed me and I was just astound at how much work she had done. She was telling me how the cornhusk was done. When you take the cornhusk you take the inner husk from the corn. You don’t use the outside because it is too rough and too thick. But the inner cornhusk is what you take and you can put a string through it and tie it up to bleach it during the summertime. When you do a weaving you’ll slice just a small, small piece like that and then it will naturally be wet. It’ll be wet and then you’ll just wrap it around your string here, your twine. It’ll be just a twist around, then you just twist it and twine it in there. This is a big project; it is going to take a long time.

Now this one it just sort of came together. I started with just a plain color and then I used a corrugated, which gives a natural design as you are weaving it up. Then I got up here and just started adding my cornhusk to it. Then I added the cedar; this is died yellow cedar and red cedar. I put that in there. Most of my work I have more or less tried, since I started with cedar, I tried to put cedar into my bags, whether it is cornhusk. So I have used yellow cedar in these and also the regular yarn but I always try to keep some parts Nez Perce.