At first we stored only water in the gourds--in imitation of old Marrow-Bone.
But one day some one of the women--I do not know which one--filled a gourd with black-berries and carried it to her cave.

In no time all the women were carrying berries and nuts and roots in the gourds.

The idea, once started, had to go on.

Another evolution of the carrying-receptacle was due to the women.

Without doubt, some woman's gourd was too small, or else she had forgotten her gourd; but be that as it may, she bent two great leaves together, pinning the seams with twigs, and carried home a bigger quantity of berries than could have been contained in the largest gourd.
So far we got, and no farther, in the transportation of supplies during the years I lived with the Folk.