Chumash people
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The Chumash are a Native American people of the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what became Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties,
Pictographs, Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park
Chumash Family by American sculptor George S. Stuart
Chumash musicians at Mission San Buenaventura, 1873
Fernando Librado was born in the Mexican era to two Chumash parents from Limuw.
Indigenous peoples of California, commonly known as Indigenous Californians or Native Californians, are a diverse group of nations and peoples that are indigenous to the geographic area within the cur
Chumash people
…a wide array of clams. Haliotis rufescens (red abalone) was harvested along the Central California coast in the pre-contact era. The Chumash and other California Indians also used red abalone shells to make a variety of fishhooks, beads, ornaments, and other artifacts. Large piles of shellfish waste were expanded over…
Winnemem Wintu chief Caleen Sisk in 2009
A representation of a Pomo dancer, painting by Grace Hudson
The Coso Rock Art District in the Mojave Desert contains about 100,000 petroglyphs.
A reconstruction of a traditional Yurok plank house.