It was a scene reminiscent of an old winery, but instead of stomping grapes, the five Los Gatos children were stomping straw into mud.

The occasion was an adobe brick-making workshop sponsored by the PaiPai tribe of Santa Catarina. The children, joined by their new tribal friends, were up to their knees in a mud pit created by a natural spring.

Their job was to mix in the straw, then shovel the adobe into wheelbarrows and transport it over to the area where it was poured into brick forms.

The occasion was Day Two of Camp Comunidad, a program that brings together Northern California families with the leaders, elders and children of the PaiPai and Kumeyaay tribes.