Tomol's And "The Carrying Of Many People"; Indigenous Resilience And Resistance In The Santa Barbara Channel
Author(s): Trevor H Gittelhough
Year: 2020
Summary
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
The indigenous Chumash people of the Santa Barbara coast relied heavily upon the wealth of maritime resources that the Santa Barbara Channel provided. In order to access these vast resources, the use of advanced sewn vessels known as tomol, were of inestimable importance to the formation and continuation of their complex society. By synthesizing different lines of evidence, including tools used in tomol construction, tools used in conjunction with these vessels, and ethno-historic documentation, the effect of Spanish colonization and missionization had on this integral technology can be analyzed. Such analysis can provide important insight into Indigenous resilience and resistance during Spanish colonialism, as well as demonstrating that maritime aspects of culture can be studied through analysis of associated materials, despite the lack of physical remains of the vessels themselves.
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Tomol's And "The Carrying Of Many People"; Indigenous Resilience And Resistance In The Santa Barbara Channel. Trevor H Gittelhough. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457219)
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Keywords
General
California Archaeology
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Indigenous resistance
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Maritime culture
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Historic
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 108