print email comment close Chumash Indian Life URL: http://www.sbnature.org/research/anthro/chumash/index.htm Description: The Chumash are a California Native American tribe that can be traced back thousands of years. This site shows the history of the Chumash through a timeline, highlighting food, medicine, myths, games, dances, language, and cave painting. The early Chumash were unique for their invention of the plank canoe and their baskets, tools, and bead making. This site is from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History's Anthropology Department, a leading center for Chumash studies, Publisher: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Library of Congress Subject Headings: Chumash Indians Indians of North America -- California LII Database Information: Record 6818 created by Rosy Brewer on 03/05/2002 Last modification on 11/06/2009 Published: 03/05/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/6818