by Ernest Thompson Seton
Let each Woodcrafter carve a fork and spoon out of wood, with his band totem on the handle.
Make a needle case out of a fowl's leg or wing bone, thus: Clean and smooth about three inches of the bone, plug up one end with a soft wood plug, and make a wooden stopper for the other end. Then with the point of a knife decorate the bone. The lines should be scratched in deeply and then have black paint rubbed into them. If no black paint is handy make a mixture of soot and pine gum, with a little grease, butter, or oil.
Make a tackle box or ditty box 2 x 2 x 6 inches carved out of solid wood.
Make peach-stone baskets, of a peach-stone shaped with a file.
Turkey call. An interesting curio is the turkey call. Take a small cigar box and cut off the end as in the figure. Get a piece of slate about 2 x 3 inches long, or, failing slate, take a flat piece of wood and rub it well with rosin. Draw the two curved edges of the box lightly up this one way, and it will make a wonderfully good imitation of a turkey call.
A chicken squawk. This is another call easily made. Take any small round tin box-a condensed milk tin is good--and make a hole through the bottom and into this put a cord. A knot on the inside prevents the cord from slipping through. Rosin the cord and draw the fingers down it with short and long jerks. This gives a good imitation of a cackling hen.
Picture frames as in the illustrations.
Birch-bark boxes and baskets. These are easily made if the bark be softened in hot water before you shape it. The lacing is spruce roots, or raffia also softened with hot water.
Noggin. A noggin is a wooden cup made out of a tree burl or knot polished outside and carefully scooped out so as to leave a thin shell.
