A long time ago the ladies would get a flat stone and they would put this on top of that flat stone and they would secure it into the ground using tree branches that were cut. They would put a few of them on each side and then they would take what is called a piley, which was fashioned from river stones or any stones that approximated the shape they wanted. They would take and find tune the shape so that it would fit their hand better. They would use that in a motion like this to pound the root or the different fish or game meats into a fine powder like that so that it would be wrapped up into a little bundle and used for traveling. The men would take that and put it in the bottom of their quiver or they would tie it onto their hip. The food is really rich. This here is a little bit of salmon that has been prepared in that way. Just this much would sustain a person for a good couple of days because it is so rich and often times it was mixed with different kinds of berries such as elderberry. They would take that and mix it with the different fishes, elk meat, deer meat, mountain sheep meat, moose meat, all the different game animals that our people would harvest from the forest or gather from the forest. I can tell you that it is really good stuff. A real delicacy for Nez Perce people is to take choke cherries and pound it up, seed and all and mix it with a little bit of dried salmon. That stuff was called tánat.