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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 358172, member: 301&quot;]Do not try to flatten the round one</p><p>Do not try to round the flattened one</p><p><br /></p><p>When you pick it you say a little prayer, thanking the grass for letting us have some of it, and that we won’t abuse it…It’s easier to weave if it is moist. If it’s not so moist it breaks all the time. You have to do that as you go along. We usually keep a little glass of water to dip our fingers in.</p><p><br /></p><p>—Maria Turnpaugh, 2003</p><p><br /></p><p>When being stored , the Attu , like the Tlingit would wet their baskets and flatten them out.</p><p>Buyers of early baskets....&amp; robbers of early baskets would often come across baskets that were flat &amp; many were destroyed for the lack of understanding that they had to be wet before they could be brought back to their original shape.</p><p><br /></p><p>--- S.M.L. 2018[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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