Then he ran to his mother and said, “Oh, mother, may I not have a new skirt? I want one of deer-skin instead of rabbit-skin this time.”
“Yes, you shall have it as soon as I can make it for you,” answered his mother.
After the deer were skinned, Ama took up a skin and said to Docas, “Put it into a still pool in the creek and let it stay there.”
“How long must it stay?” asked Docas.
“Until the hair is loose,” answered Ama.
So every morning Docas went out to the skin to see if the hair was loose. One morning he came running to his mother, crying, “Look, mother, I pulled this bunch of hair out so easily this morning!”
Then Ama took the skin out of the water.
“You may pull all the hair out,” she said to Docas. “After that I will scrape it with a sharp stone.”
When both sides were scraped clean, Ama and Docas went out into the woods.
“We must find two trees so close together that we can stretch the skin between them,” said Ama.