Akoko looked for spruce trees that had been blown down by the storm, but found none, so she stopped under some standing spruce, at a place with no underbrush and said: "See, nagami, here we dig for wattap."
"Woodland Tales"
Ernest Seton-Thompson
So nagami took her knife and worked for an hour, then came with the bundle saying: "See, Mother, they are smooth, and so white that they have not a brown spot left."
"Woodland Tales"
Ernest Seton-Thompson
See, my nagami, when I was a little girl I had only a bone needle made from the leg of a deer, but you have easy work; here is a big steel packing needle, which I bought for you from a trader.
"Woodland Tales"
Ernest Seton-Thompson