Although our tribe now had iron axes and hoes from the traders, they still used their native made rakes. These were of wood ([figure 4]), or of the antler of a black-tailed deer ([figure 5]). It was with such rakes that the edges of a newly opened field were cleaned of leaves for the firing of the brush, in the spring.
In the field with a horn rake
Hoeing squashes with a bone hoe
Trees in the Garden
Trees were not left standing in the garden, except perhaps one to shade the watchers’ stage. If a tree stood in the field, it shaded the corn; and that on the north side of the tree never grew up strong, and the stalks would be yellow.
Cottonwood trees were apt to grow up in the field, unless the young shoots were plucked up as they appeared.