While the men worked upon their trophies and weapons, the women, too, were working.
How the women dressed skins
They had gone to the river banks to get stones to make into tools.
They were ready to dress old Sabre-tooth’s skin, so they hunted for stones that would make good scrapers.
They shaped the stones by chipping them with hammer stones, but they did not make handles for them.
If the rough edges hurt their hands, they wrapped the scraper in a piece of skin.
When the scrapers were ready, they found a smooth spot where they stretched out Sabre-tooth’s skin.
Then they made little slits all around the edge and drove little pegs through them.