Household

• As with many other Indian tribes, the Pawnee women occupied a central role in the household. Child-rearing, for example, was a woman's responsibility. As a consequence of their child delivery and care responsibility, this specialist knowledge often allowed them to became village healers. Pawnee women also were responsible for the day-to-day decision-making at home as well as cooking, washing dishes, hauling water and collecting fuel. As owners of the teepee and all household objects, such as cooking utensils and furniture, women were expected to look after and maintain these items as necessary.
  
  

Labor

• In the Pawnee division of labor, women also were responsible for farming and producing food. This included clearing the fields, planting, hoeing, weeding, harvesting and collecting plants for eating and making medicine as well as the production of necessary farming tools and equipment. Storing and processing food, such as corn, beans and squash, were tasks also reserved for women. These duties created a childcare responsibility for older women while younger women were out in the field.
  
  

Production

• Pawnee women also were responsible for processing animal hides, except for bear, beaver and fox hides that were prepared and used by men in hunting. Pawnee women would then use these hides to make and repair clothing and teepee covers, although men would repair their own clothing and moccasins when on a hunt. Women were exclusively involved in wooden crafts, such as the production of spoons and bowls, along with quilt-making and basket-weaving.
  
  

Religion

• As priesthood was a responsibility reserved for men, Pawnee women were not formally involved in village ritual and ceremonies. They were, however, responsible for making regalia, such as clothing and mortars, as well as maintaining and looking after ritual objects and paraphernalia. Only in one Pawnee ceremony, the Corn Planting Ceremony of the Skull Bundle, did women have a major role. This ceremony involved a female visionary who sponsored the winter buffalo hunt and had a brother obtain the necessary meat.