LET-718: Letter from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History seeking permission to collect driftwood for construction of a Chumash tomol

Author(s): Travis Hudson

Year: 1975

Summary

This document is a letter from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History requesting permission to gather and collect driftwood for the purpose of constructing a traditional Chumash canoe.

Cite this Record

LET-718: Letter from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History seeking permission to collect driftwood for construction of a Chumash tomol. Travis Hudson. 1975 ( tDAR id: 497243) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8497243

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Culture
California Indian • Chumash Indians

Material
Building Materials • driftwood • Fauna • plank canoe • planks • redwood • Whale bone • Willow • Wood

Site Name
Arroyo Hondo • Arroyo Hondo area beach • Arroyo Hondo Canyon

Investigation Types
Consultation

General
boat-building techniques • Chumash seafaring • Chumash shipwrights • Chumash watercraft • deAnza March • Dug-out • plank canoe • planks • Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History • The American Bicentennial Committee for Santa Barbara County • Tomol • Watercraft • whale bone wedges • wi'ma

Geographic Keywords
Arroyo Hondo Canyon • California (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • Santa Barbara (County) • Santa Barbara Channel • United States of America (Country) • Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) • Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Roscoe Loetzerich; Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)

Landowner(s): Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)

Repository(s): 30 CES/CEVPC Vandenberg Space Force Base

Record Identifiers

VAFB Document Number(s): LET-718

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