Can you think why Willow-grouse would take great pains to embroider her baby’s clothing?
Why would Willow-grouse want pretty colors? Think of new ways she might find of getting pretty colors. How could she get the color out of plants into the stuff she wished to color?
Why was it easier to make pretty dyes after people knew how to boil?
The New Home
A baby’s hood.
A year or so passed and Fleetfoot and Willow-grouse were settled with their kinsfolk in a new rock shelter. Its framework was covered with heavy skins instead of woven branches. Heavy bone pegs and strong thongs served to keep the skins in place.
“In summer he played in the basket cradle which Willow-grouse wove on a forked stick.”
Flaker and other young men with their wives lived in the rock shelter. There were little children, too, and tiny babies.