But sometimes they had to stay at home to take care of the babies.
Brighteyes liked to play with the babies.
She would hunt for bright and shining playthings, which she strung on spruce root or a kind of tough grass.
Then she would dangle them over the heads of the babies and watch them as they laughed and crowed.
“They rocked the babies in their cradles”
Sometimes the girls made rattles of gourds, which the babies played with for a long time.
Sometimes they carried the babies on their backs until they got very tired.
Then they put them in their skin cradles again and hung them on the branches of a tree.