--- title: II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made — Wigwam stories told by North American Indians · full text with trees description: II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made, «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Indians in the west tell this story: --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Wigwam stories told by North American…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/) / II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made # II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made II. How Clay Dishes Were First Made of «Wigwam stories told by North American Indians» by Mary Catherine Judd: the whole text, 20 sentences and 312 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. The Indians in the west tell this story:[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") A squaw left her two boys to care for her papoose while she worked.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") She was hidden in the wickiup, or tent, and did not see what the boys were doing until the papoose began to cry.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") The squaw found them all down by the river.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") They could not stir, for their feet were stuck fast in the wet clay of the river bank.[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") She got her three children back to the wickiup.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") They laughed at their footprints in the clay, for they had left deep holes everywhere.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") The band of Indians left their camp before the sun was over their heads.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") The squaw, with her papoose and her boys, was soon far away from the river bank; but during the hot summer, which was soon upon them, the same band returned to the river they had left.[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") The two little Indian boys went down to the clay bank where they had stuck fast.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") No rain had fallen since they had been there, and they found their footprints in the clay.[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") These had dried until the mud was like stone.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") The squaw came and looked at the holes.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") She took some clay in her hands and wet it in the river, then she shaped it like the hollow stone she used for cooking.[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") She dried the clay in the sun, and it was soon hard.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") An old chief saw the clay dishes and told the other squaws to make them, but the clay dishes would not hold water and broke very easily.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") A squaw put some ashes and fire in her dish one day.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") She wanted to save the fire, for it was hard to get.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") The hot coals baked the dish, and it would not break.[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") It held water; then the Indians knew how to make their clay dishes in the right way.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [I. Iagoo, the Great Story-teller](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/26/) - next →: [III. Leaping Rock in the Pipestone Valley](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/28/) - ↑ back to [Wigwam stories told by North American Indians](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg73136/)