Chumash Culture

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Chumash Culture
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• Im not going to bore you with this stuff.

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Chumash Culture

• The Chumash were a culture that lived in
  the Channel Islands off the coast of California.
  The Channel Islands are located toward the middle
  of the state off the west coast.

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Chumash Jewelry

• The Chumash must have had a lot of extra time
  on their hands because they made jewelry. They
  crafted it out of shells and bones. There are
  still some jewelry pieces left in museums after
  years of wear and tear.

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Chumash Jobs

• The Chumash had very interesting jobs. Some of
  the men were hunters and got food. Others were
  astronomers and studied the stars. Some were
  medicine men and believed they could talk to the
  gods. Others studied the wind the trees and the
  animals. Last but not least the women stayed
  home and watched the children and made food.
  

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Chumash pets

• The Chumash had pets to keep them company.
  They usually trapped island foxes and then tamed
  them and kept them as pets. Tamed foxes to the
  Chumash were like pet dogs are to us today.

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Chumash Transportation

• The Chumash would go out in tomtals canoes
  and kill sharks and use their skin to sand drift
  wood to make more canoes. Then they would travel
  to other islands to barter.

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Chumash Language

• The Chumash spoke Hokan and would
• communicate with each other. The Hokan
• language was not used by many other people.

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To Sum It All Up

• I liked doing this report. I think it would be
  hard to live like a Chumash for the rest of my
  life. It would be hard to work all day long just
  hunting for your food. Also, if I were a
  Chumash, some of the things I would miss about
  today would be lots of different choices of food,
  playing with Legos, and working and playing on
  the computer.

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In Conclusion

• I hope you enjoyed me sharing what I
• know about the Chumash. I hope you learned
• just as much as I did!