Replicas of Native California
Material Cultures

 

Acorn processing tools Stone mortar and pestle with soaproot brush

Close-up of a tule mat

Looped stirring stick for lifting hot cooking stones from the basket.

Tule duck decoy The decoys were either covered with the skin and feathers of a duck or were painted with mineral pigments and feathers were tied to the tule body.

Coiled basket The weavers are split sedge rhizomes and redbud. The foundation materials are willow stems.

Deer bone tools Scapular bone saw, antler tine awl, ulna bone awl, metatarsal bone awl.

Women's clothing Bark skirt (front) and brain tanned deer skin skirt (back). When it got cold, the rabbit skin blanket was draped over the shoulders.

Shells and seeds for necklaces. Grey pine nuts, abalone, Washington clam, mussel, limpet and olivella.

Obsidian and chert points

Willow fish trap

Willow burden basket

Dogbane carrying net Dry dogbane stalks Processed dogbane fibers and cordage

Willow woodpecker trap

Sawiy Berry picking basket made from tule.

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