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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 39004, member: 301&quot;]Traditionally, the Makah pukwu baskets differed from those of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) ones in that the Makah generally used cedar bark as a weft and employed a plaited cedar bark start.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Nuu-chah-nulth people used Three Corner Grass (Schoenoplectus olneyi),as a warp (Gogol 1981). S. olneyi, known as Toh-toh to the Nuu-chah-nulth people, is also often termed “American Bulrush” or “Sweetgrass.” </p><p><br /></p><p>It grows in tidal flats, as well as in wet meadows, ditches and marshes. It is gathered between July and early August. To process “Sweetgrass,” the outer layer was traditionally removed using a mussel shell or deer’s leg bone and running it along each strand with the thumb positioned beneath (Thompson and Marr 1983).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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