This is an example of cornhusk work that our women do. This is a bit of a newer piece. It has two sides to it because you can see how bright the yarn work is on it. This here is an older style of cornhusk work that doesn’t have any yarn in it. These are all dyed cornhusks. The cornhusks, you take the inner portion of the, the inner layers of the husks so you wouldn’t rightly use the outside of it, the green areas. You would use the inner three layers because it was softer and it wouldn’t be as likely to break when you soaked it. You take those and you hang them out to dry. I remember hanging out cornhusks for some of my older relatives. They would take the cornhusks while it was fresh off the cob and they would tie it into a whole line and then they would hang it in the sunlight. The sunlight would lighten the color and make it brighter and then after that all you had to do was take it down and you would soak it in water. Then you’d tear little strips off from it and you’d use it in weaving. It was always soaked before you wove it into this fashion because it bended easier and it wasn’t as likely to break. This is a lot, a lot of work. Here is another example of yarn work. This is similar to the weaving style that you see here, but it’s all yarn work. You can see the transition that has occurred between the old style cornhusk that went from, and this is a real nice piece to demonstrate because all of this right here is the old style qému that is twine made from the bark of a plant we use. You can see that in here there is cotton thread that is starting to be used or cotton string and now here it is all cotton. But the other side is all cornhusk. From there we started to use yarn work in conjunction with the cornhusk. Now you can see pieces that are all yarn. This is a real good representation of how are people have changed. I always like the older pieces.