After trying for a long time, she made it into a basket.
She did not cut the bark, but shaped it by making folds in each corner and fastening them with sharp thorns.
She gathered winter buds into the basket and carried them home to the cave.
“This basket did not last very long”
In a few days the thorns fell out, so Firekeeper cut the bark and sewed the folds.
But this basket did not last very long.
The edges split and Firekeeper’s basket was soon worn out.
One morning she went with the other women to get birch bark for another basket.