Chumash

General Life

Population

• The original population was 22,000
• The current population is 200

Location

• The original location of the Chumash tribe was near California
• The Current location is In Santa Barbara

Daily Life

Women/Girls

• The girls helped and learned from the women
• The women did all of the cleaning and cooking and sometimes gardening.

Men/Boys

• The men did the hunting and fishing
• The boys watched the men and helped themalso.

Clothing

• The women and girls wore a 2 piece skirt made of deer skin or plant fiber
• The men and boys wore nothing at all
• During the winter everybody wore a cape ,add of animal hid if needed

Crafts/Travel

• The Chumash loved to weave baskets,do rock drawing and build canoes
• To get around they used the conoes or walked from place to place

Housing

Sweathouse

• The sweat house was made up of poles, branches, bulrushes, and cat tails

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• The sweathouse also held up to 50 people per house and was only 12-20 feet in diameter
• The chief got his own house and was 35-50 feet in diamete

Food

How to get the food...

• To get food they hunted and fished
• They are fish, deer, mussels, clams and abalone
• During the winter they did store foodd

TODAY

Fishing/Hunting

• The Chumash people today continue to hunt and fish there are only a few things that they do different form the 17-1800s