When you jiggle or set hooks for loche, you get quite a bit of loche. You pack the whole pile of it up to the tent. Then you take all the liver and eggs out. You put all the liver in a big pan. Then you mash the whole liver up. You take all the skin and veins out of it until it is smooth. Only then you put it on to cook. If there is a lot of liver and eggs, you are cooking it all day or all evening. You cook it slowly, then you take it down. You put all the cooked liver to one side of the pan so all the grease drains out. Put the grease into a pot. You could put cranberries in with the eggs too. Also add sugar to it. Nowadays they put sugar and a little flour into it. You put the cooked liver into a good pan to freeze. In the old days, after they washed the loche stomach bag, they put the liver into it. They would put the grease into a separate bag too. The liver does not spoil and tastes fresh over the winter. You can eat it while it’s frozen.

She was old enough to work so whenever her father and she stayed with a family, she would do a lot of work. She was willing to work; bring wood, melt snow for water. And while she was filling pails with snow, she would see cranberries on the ground and she would dig and eat frozen berries. She would be away a long time. When she came back, they asked her, “What is wrong, why were you away so long?” She said she found berries on the ground and she was digging all over so she could eat the berries.

. . .they had special clothes for the summer. Some of them had different names but I can’t say it in English very good,…these fancied up clothes were worn for summer and men and children wore these. Sometimes if a family had good workers, they had a good life. They made clothes like buckskin jackets with all kinds of different beads on them. The kinds of beads I’m talking about were different from the beads now. They were made out of ivory bone and they coloured the beads with different kinds of berries. These beads were pretty big and you could see on the shoulders of the jacket the bead work, and on the back of the jacket. Sometimes they would make a pair of overalls out of really good white tanned caribou skin. They also beaded the shoes. They also made fancy garters out of good tanned moose skin or caribou skin and out of fancy bead work or great porcupine quills. These were all different colours and they used that for garters either for men or women. These were made for special summer occasions, like sports day.