California Intermountain

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California Intermountain

• Research

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ECONOMICS

• FOOD -rabbits, ants, berries, deer, fish,
  clams
• CLOTHING - animal skins or woven grass cold
  weather - deer skin shirts, leggings, moccasins
  WOMEN - dresses and
  bonnets
• SHELTER/HOME - wickiup (bark of trees laid in
  sheets like a teepee). Homes arranged in groups
• WEAPONS/TOOLS - canoes for fishing, shells as
  jewelry, baskets used for many reasons

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SOCIAL LIFE

• Lived in communities of 2,000 people
• Houses were grouped together
• November was rabbit hunt month
• Were nomadic (traveled around following food-no
  permanent home)

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ASSIGNMENT OF ROLES

• Men were the hunters of the food
• Women were the gathers of the food

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ART

• Clam shell necklaces
• Woven baskets

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RELIGION

• Feared spirits of the dead. Once you died
  everything you had was burned including the body
  and the name was never spoken of again.