But that belongs to another chapter.
They saved its skin with all its spears and hung it in the storehouse.
The quills with the white bodies and ready-made needle at each end are admirable for embroidering, but they are white only.
"How can we dye them, Quonab?
"In the summer are many dyes; in winter they are hard to get.

We can get some." So forth he went to a hemlock tree, and cut till he could gather the inner pink bark, which, boiled with the quills, turned them a dull pink; similarly, alder bark furnished rich orange, and butternut bark a brown.
Oak chips, with a few bits of iron in the pot, dyed black.
"Must wait till summer for red and green," said the Indian.

"Red comes only from berries; the best is the blitum.

We call it squaw-berry and mis-caw-wa, yellow comes from the yellow root (Hydrastis)." But black, white, orange, pink, brown, and a dull red made by a double dip of orange and pink, are a good range of colour.

The method in using the quills is simple.