Use the beadwork images to pick Abenaki designs for your beadwork. An example of a traditional Abenaki design is the double curve, which is a curved line whose ends curl inward. Non-traditional design possibilities include designs that depict things important to the traditional Abenaki way of life like cattail leaves which the Abenaki wove to make mats.
Bead with purple and white tube-shaped beads for a pre-Colonial style. Use small glass beads for post-Colonial style Abenaki beadwork.
Draw the pouch shape onto a piece of paper. The outline of the pouch shape looks like a flower pot with rounded bottom edges and a tall upper section, like a vase's upper section. Cut the paper out.
Set the paper on the cloth and trace an outline of it. Set it on another part of the cloth and make another outline. Lightly draw the designs you have chosen onto the outlines.
Sew the beads along the designs you drew on the cloth sections with the pencil, using the heavy-duty thread and the needle.
Cut these two outlines out. Set one on top of the other so that they are both facing inside out. Sew them together along the edges. Hem the top of the pouch.
Set out the polymer clay and the shaping tools on a flat surface.
Use the Abenaki pottery photos to select a design. One type of Abenaki pot shape tapers to a rounded bottom with a pointed tip, while another has an hourglass shape with curved sections removed from the rim. A decorative design the Abenakis made use of was a row of triangles incised with lines placed between two bars that encircled the entire pot.
Use the photo or photos you picked as a guide in shaping the basic design of the pot with one color of clay.
Shape decorative designs with the other colors of clay, again using the photos as a guide. Press the designs into the outside of the pot.
Bake the clay according to the manufacturer's instructions.