She will help her mother in keeping one of the small vegetable gardens near the townthe men cultivate the outlying fields of corn and wheat (and the men and boys herd the sheep which make the Zuni prosperous), and Waiyautitsa will help her household thresh their wheat crop, in the morning preparing dinner for the workers, for relatives from other households as well as from her own, in the afternoon joining the threshers as the men drive horses or mules around the circular threshing floor and the women and girls pitchfork the wheat and brush away the chaff and winnow the grain in baskets.
