Equally skilful were they in taking the horn of an ox or mountain sheep, heating it, and then shaping it into a drinking-cup, a spoon, or a ladle, and carving upon it designs that equal those found upon the pottery of the ancient world.
Shoemaking was extensively carried on, for sale on the ranches and to the trading-vessels.

Tallow was tried out by the ton and run into underground brick vaults, some of which would hold in one mass several complete ship-loads.

This was quarried out and then hauled to San Pedro, or the nearest port, for shipment.

Sometimes it was run into great bags made of hides, that would hold from five hundred to a thousand pounds each, and then shipped.
Many of the Indians became expert carpenters, and a few even might be classed as fair cabinet-makers.

There were wheelwrights and cart-makers who made the "carretas" that are now the joy of the relic-hunter.