Native Americans by Luis Casillas https://padlet.com/100002643/pyqeqlzkoa05 Made by Luis Casillas en-us 2018-11-26 21:43:03 UTC 2026-03-16 12:09:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png Natural Resources 100002643 https://padlet.com/100002643/pyqeqlzkoa05/wish/308041950
  • Deer skin
  • Grass and tule reeds
  • Tree bark 
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  • Dances and ceremonies were held
  • Outside with brush fences around dance area 
  • Headdresses were made from magpie birds
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  • Pieces of clamshell were shaped into small circles, holes punched in the middle, and the disks strung on strings.
  • Northern Valley Yokuts also traded with the Costanoans for mussels and abalone shells, and with the Miwok for baskets, bows and arrows.
  • The Yokuts got seashells from the people who lived on the coast, and made them into money, which they called 

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  • Grasses 
  • Cedar bark
  • Nuts
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  • Some Miwok ceremonies were connected with religious practices.
  • For these, special  robes and feather headdresses were used.
  • Some Miwok dances included clowns called Wo'ochi who were painted white and represented coyotes.
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  • Clamshell disks were used as money, though they were considered less valuable among the Miwok than among their neighbors to the north.
  • Some Miwok dances included clowns called Wo'ochi who were painted white and represented coyotes.
  • The Miwok also had the Uzumati or grizzly bear ceremony, where the dancer pretended to be a bear, with pieces of obsidian attached to his fingers as claws.
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  • Seeds
  • Plants
  • Seafood
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  • While a few other early Californians left rock paintings, those of the Chumash are among the most interesting in the United States. 
  • These rock paintings probably had some religious or ceremonial function.
  • The sites of the paintings, high in the coastal mountain range away from the villages, may have been sacred spots for the people. 
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  • It is likely that the Chumash were the supply source for southern California for the clamshell disk beads used as money by most of the central and southern Californians.
  • The giant Pismo clam shell was broken into pieces, rounded into disks, holes punched in the middle, and the disks strung on strings.
  • Long tube-shaped beads, as much as 3½ inches long and made from other shells, were also valued.
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