qwa’pulhp

Devil’s club

Vocabulary list

qwa’pulhp	Devil’s club
tth’um’q’tun	scissors
’aluxut	gather
tth’utth’xit	big beads
smeent	mountain
statluw’	creek
’i’mush	walking
thuthiqut	forest
’uy’ shqwaluwun	good feelings
	sinew
	needles
	clasps or connectors for necklaces or bracelets

Day 1: Harvesting Devil’s Club

1. Prayer to start our day off in a good way.

2. Walk to a creek side to find the Devil’s club

3. You go to a place where lots of Devil’s club lives.

4. When cutting Devil’s club.

• give a prayer of thanks or offering to the plant.
• you don’t cut the mother branch. 
• you choose a stem from the main branch.

5. After gathering your Devil’s club.

• you cut the prickle outer layer off.  
• you will have a smooth surface after.

6. When you take the prickles off, you save them and pass them along to another friend who makes medicines with them.

Day 2: Crafting — How to start

1. Today you will start cutting into pieces, like beads. 

• using a hand saw and a cutting board.
• place Devil’s club onto the cutting board and cut into the selected size.
• using sandpaper to sand down the piece of Devil’s club to smooth out the bead.

2. Drill to make a hole in the center of the Devil’s club to make it into a bead.

3. Then boil your bead pieces to harden the beads.

• in a boiling pot of water, place beads and let sit for a minute for the process of hardening.

4. After your beads are ready you can start building your necklace.

Students’ work