The mountain laurel, the elders, the sarvis bushes, the wild roses which, a few days before, had been fragrant and beautiful with blossom and leaf and musical with birds, had disappeared.

The sarvis-berries ripened, and they picked hatfuls.

The women were cooking up some sarvis berries.

Then he carried Mik-a'pi to a place where were many sarvis berries, and broke off great branches of the fruit, and gave them to him, saying, "Eat, my brother, eat!"

Two of the young men went ahead, and when they had climbed to the top of a ridge and looked over it on to Sarvis Berry (Saskatoon) Creek, they came back and told E-k[=u]s'-kini that they had seen a large camp of people over there, and that they thought it was the Piegans, Bloods, Blackfeet, and Sarcees, who had all moved over there together.

He marked off a piece of ground, and in it he made to grow all kinds of roots and berries,camas, wild carrots, wild turnips, sweet-root, bitter-root, sarvis berries, bull berries, cherries, plums, and rosebuds.

So he went out, and cut some sarvis berry shoots, and brought them in, and peeled the bark off them.

Arrows were made of shoots of the sarvis berry wood, which was straight, very heavy, and not brittle.

Large quantities of sarvis berries (Amelanchier alnifolia) were gathered whenever there was a crop (which occurs every other year), dried, and stored for future use.

Sometimes a few are pounded up with sarvis berries, and dried.

The Medicine Lodge is always built in summer, at the season of the ripening of the sarvis berries, and if, before this time, the person for whom the vow is made dies, the woman is not obliged to fulfil her vow.

At a signal they make the holes in the ground, and drop in some seed, with some sacred sarvis berries.

Before the fire were two huge kettles of cooked sarvis berries, a large bowlful of which was soon set before each guest.

Illustrated by David Sarvis.

Illustrated by David Sarvis.

Illustrated by David Sarvis.

Illustrated by David Sarvis.