Baskets of this form were used more frequently as serving trays for wild and cultivated foods. Older people and young children tended planted fields of corn, beans, and pumpkins while hunting and gathering parties went out to collect wild resources. Through the seasons they gathered such foods as fruits of the saguaro, prickly pear and cholla cacti, mesquite beans, mescal, acorns, pinon nuts, and hunted deer and antelope.