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15 Each visitor brought a gift for the pile that the children who
won the game of silence would choose from that night. For it

was an important night. With the raggedy ones came serious
doings. Difficult questions and impossible news. Great attention
was needed. The grown-ups needed to council, think, absorb
the facts, without having to shush small children. The children
could tell how important the meeting was from the degree to
which their silence was required. The pile of treats was the

best ever.

16 There was a bag of marbles, some of actual glass, not just
clay. A pair of narrow makazinan that Omakayas thought just
might fit her. One doll, elaborately dressed in a tiny set of

britches and a leather coat. A sharp knife. A deer knuckle game.
Two duck’s bills of maple sugar tied together with split jack-pine
root. Six red ribbons. A little roll of flowered cloth. Eight tiny
bells. One small bow, and six arrows tipped with real brass
points cut from a trade kettle. The arrows were fletched with the
sharp black and yellow feathers of a bird that the island where

they lived was named for—the golden-breasted woodpecker.
Old Tallow must have brought them. What treasures! The
children examined them breathlessly, each picking out one
particular prize they meant to win.

elaborately If something is elaborately dressed or decorated, it has
many complex artistic details.

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