Howdy Folks!
Here are some (actually, a lot of) pics from the trip to YSI Sanborn!
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| Sporting a necklace made from the sinews of deer muscle and pieces of abalone shells! |
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| Trying to get down with making tule bracelet! |
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| Inside a hollowed out thousand year-old tree trunk! |
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| Playing an Ohlone dice game with dice made from nut shells and abalone shells! |
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| The Sandstone Man!Did you know the Ohlone would use sandstone rocks as a mortar/pestle combo to ground acorns? |
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| What a lovely banana slug! It's been said that you obtain good luck when you kiss a banana slug! |
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| The Ohlone would wear masks made from the skins of animals when they would go hunting and when they would want to liven things up when story telling! |
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| Did you know that the Ohlone would use duck decoys made out of Tule to lure tasty ducks for dinner? |
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| Another use for a bow? You could use it to start a camp fire! |
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| Using a pump drill to bore holes! |
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| Did you know that the lilac plant is a natural soap? |
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| In the midst of two hundred-year old Redwoods! |
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| Taking a luck at duckweed in the pond, which is an invasive species to our Bay Area ecosystem! |
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| Taking down some keywords! |
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| A few food items that the Ohlone would gather! |
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| Checking out an arrow made reed plant! |
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| How the Ohone folk started a fire! |
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| Checking out soap root that has been utilized as a brush! |
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| Using a hot stone to warm up potential acorn mush! This method to warm up food was the norm for the Ohlone! |
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| Grinding up acorns with a "sandstone" mortar and pestle! |
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| Crushing acorns with stones! |
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| Passing out tule reeds for some bracelet making! |
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| Dry lilac petals for cleaning your hands! |
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| Getting ready to leech the tannic acid from the acorn meal! |
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| It looks disgusting, but it' not bad tasting! |
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| Ready for cooking! |
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| Sifting all the huge acorn chunks out of the acorn meal! |
