THINGS TO DO
Weave uncolored splints or reeds so as to make different patterns.
Find a fruit that will make a durable stain, and stain some splints for a basket, or make a pattern by staining an uncolored basket.
See if you can find how to take fruit stains out of clothing.
If you can find colored earth, see if you can make some paint to use in ornamenting your baskets.
Try different ways of changing the color of grasses, splints, and reeds, by soaking them in water or burying them in different kinds of soil.
“They worked the colors into pretty patterns, many of which we use to-day”