The People
How long Indigenous people have been in Southern California, in their own words.
What is "since time immemorial"?
What our site code means.
What is the 602nd archeological site in Los Angeles County?
The lifespan of a single coast live oak tree.
What is over 250 years?
"Is that real ___?"
The animal the kids think is staring at them.
What is a raccoon?
Santa Catalina (or Pimuu'nga) is part of this tribe's ancestral homelands.
Who are the Tongva?
The sandstone walls are not actual sandstone, but...
What is resin, glue, and sand?
The two examples of food made with acorn flour (that are on the knowledge handout).
What is acorn bread and acorn mush/meal?
Three types of pigments.
How long you should push the ON button.
What is 5 seconds?
A tomol is made with planks from this kind of driftwood, tied together with plant cordage, and caulked with yop (pine pitch + asphaltum).
What is California redwood?
The material inside the taxidermy.
What is foam?
The harder of the two types of stones found in the lab.
What is sandstone?
Tule is used to make this kind of structure's roof.
What is a sweatlodge?
Our 3 newly fruited plants!
What are hollyleaf cherry, blue elderberry, and toyon?
The name of the only federally recognized Chumash tribe.
What is the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians?
Represented in the pictographs, these 4 animals are all important to the Chumash.
What are deer, swordfish, lizards, and turkeys?
The amount of days it takes to leach acorn flour.
What is 6-7 days?
The tool (that is not excavated by students) used to make the holes in olive snail shell beads.
What is the chert drill?
The man that made our objects!
Who is Michael Kitfox Phillips?
A Tataviam greeting!
What is haminat?
We have a beautiful mural that shows off the Santa Monica Mountains, and this detail is a clue that people live in this area.
What is the smoke plume?
Where the color in the basket comes from.
What is a natural color of juncus?
How the animal noises get activated.
What is by walking under a motion sensor?