What region did the Chumash Native Americans live in?
What is California
100
What are different types of artwork they create
What are pottery and baskets
100
What is a main celebration?
What is the Swordfish Dance
100
What are types of food they ate?
What is swordfish, seals, otters, clams, nuts, berries, seeds and acorn meal.
100
Who is the important person from the Chumash Tribe?
What is Geronimo Boscana
200
What part of their region do the Chumash live?
What is the Southwest
200
Name Chumash transportation methods
What are foot, plank canoes
200
What was the chief of all sea creatures?
What is the Swordfish.
200
What type of home do the Chumash Native Americans live in?
What is grass houses.
200
What did the important person do?
What is Geronimo was a missionary.
300
What is the climate like in this region?
What is hot and dry.
300
What did the men in the tribes do?
What is fishing, hunting and protecting the family.
300
Who did they believe helped them get food?
What is Swordfish
300
What do men in the Chumash tribe wear?
What is men usually went naked.
300
How did mothers carry their babies?
What is in cradleboards.
400
What else were plants and grasses used for?
What is baskets, they used baskets gathering, storing, preparing and storing food and even to carry water!
400
What are the roles of the women in the tribe?
What is childcare, picking berries and seeds, and weaving baskets.
400
What was the purpose of a sweathouse?
What is to cleanse the body. People would sit in the sweathouse for awhile, then go outisde a jump into the cool water and return to the sweathouse for a few more minutes. Herbs were burnt in the fire inside the house.
400
What do women in the tribes wear?
What is grass or deerskin skirt, capes and feather robes.
400
What did the Chumash use for money?
What is beadmoney. This was made from small disks made from shells.
500
What are the primary natural resources for the Chumash Native Americans?
What are fish, seals, otters, clams, nuts, berries and seeds.
500
What do the children in the family do?
What is play with toys and play games. Boys helped their dads and girls helped their moms.
500
What did they do in the Swordfish dance?
What is people decorated swordfish skulls and offered gifts, they would dance too.
500
How did the Chumash construct their homes?
What is they would put willow poles in the ground in a circle, the poles were bent to form a dome. Then smaller branches were tied across to cover the outide, cattails were added in layers. Each row overlapped the other, such as shingles. They left a smoke hole in the top.
500
What did people do for festive occassions?
What is people would wear body paint and jewelry and dancers and singers would wear special outfits with feathered skirts and headdresses.