Some of them were thin, and some of them were thick.
But the women did not mind this.
At first they wove them by interlacing, as Sharptooth had woven the basket of rushes.
“They wove the splints in open work”
But since the strands were not all the same width, the weaving did not look the same.
After a while they began to sort the splints.
They put the wide splints into one pile and the narrow ones into another.
Then they wove the wide splints in open work and made baskets for carrying roots and leaves.
They wanted smaller baskets for carrying berries, so they used the narrow splints.