When they reach the fishing ground that belongs to their family. Cedar wood floats support the net's upper edge. Wearing a cedar bark hag cape and skirt to protect her form the rain and the cold, the baby's grandmother digs into the pebbly sand of the beach at low tide to collect clams. She loads them into a basket of cedar withe and roof adjust the broad cedar bark tumpline across her forehead and returns home along the beach. The embers in the centre of the big cedar plank house leap into flame as the clam gatherer's niece adds more wood.
Smokes billows past the cedar rack above, where small split fish are hung to cure.
It curls its way past the great cedar roof planks. Outside the house stands a tall, carved cedar memorial pole, bearing the prestigious crests of her family lineage. It has been raised with long, strong cedar withe ropes and validated with the ceremony. The house chief and nobleman had taken out their ceremonial regalia from large storage chest of cedar wood, dancers had worn cedar wood masks adorned with cascades of soft-shredded cedar bark and performed in front of screens made of cedar planks. Guests had been served quantities of food from huge cedar bowls and dishes, wiping their hands clean on soft-shredded cedar bark.