Chumash: A Picture of Their World

For thousands of years, the Chumash Indians occupied the central California coast, making their villages along the shoreline and in the back country of the coastal mountain ranges, Today, most of what was once Chumash has been lost to us. The artifacts of their civilization have been packed away in museums or obliterated from the surface of the earth by dust and time and housing developments. This book gathers the knowledge that the scholars, the early explorers and the Chumash themselves have given us. It presents a vivid picture of these magnificent people, giving details of their lifeways, their beliefs, their ceremonies, and the wonderful things they made.