Fantastic presentation, by far the best I've ever seen... Many kudos my friend!!! I've found a lot of Chumash beads. Mostly circular Olivella ones in sizes from extremely tiny(3mm range) to almost 2cm for the circular disk types, several other types of shells too, as well as bone and stone ones. I have many made using various types of stones too. Mostly black steatite but other stuff too. I even have one of something very similar to turquoise but it isn't, it's a type of stone found in Calleguas Creek, Camarillo on the south side of Camarillo, Ca. I've found numerous drops/pendants too. BTW everything in my collection was found by surface hunting. I've never dug for any of the artifacts in my collections in my life.
I have a beautiful little sea otter effigy made from black steatite I found up in the Santa Rosa Valley by Calleguas Creek in Camarillo, Ca., a few miles from the ocean.
It seems to me the easiest way to grind down the round beads would be to use a groove in a grindstone similar to that used to sharpen bone awls and the like. For the ultra-small small beads in the 1-1.5 diameter range, I wonder if they used human hair to string those. Just a thought.
Its a Chumash village site called Shalawa, not just a burial site and no its not for sale to colonizers. The whole beach was a village , not just that tiny speck of land! Duh!!
Fantastic presentation, by far the best I've ever seen... Many kudos my friend!!! I've found a lot of Chumash beads. Mostly circular Olivella ones in sizes from extremely tiny(3mm range) to almost 2cm for the circular disk types, several other types of shells too, as well as bone and stone ones. I have many made using various types of stones too. Mostly black steatite but other stuff too. I even have one of something very similar to turquoise but it isn't, it's a type of stone found in Calleguas Creek, Camarillo on the south side of Camarillo, Ca. I've found numerous drops/pendants too. BTW everything in my collection was found by surface hunting. I've never dug for any of the artifacts in my collections in my life.
I have a beautiful little sea otter effigy
made from black steatite I found up in the Santa Rosa Valley by Calleguas Creek in Camarillo, Ca., a few miles from the ocean.
It seems to me the easiest way to grind down the round beads would be to use a groove in a grindstone similar to that used to sharpen bone awls and the like.
For the ultra-small small beads in the 1-1.5 diameter range, I wonder if they used human hair to string those. Just a thought.
Its a Chumash village site called Shalawa, not just a burial site and no its not for sale to colonizers. The whole beach was a village , not just that tiny speck of land! Duh!!