Detail View: Native Americans on the Central Coast: Chumash tomol (boat) effigy made from Catalina Island steatite. Found at Burton Mound (old Potter Hotel site) and presented by Vera Dowell to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

Title: 
Chumash tomol (boat) effigy made from Catalina Island steatite. Found at Burton Mound (old Potter Hotel site) and presented by Vera Dowell to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
Creator: 
unknown
Date: 
undated
Description: 
Close up photograph of stone boat effigy in profile view. Image originally obtained from Santa Barbara Historical Society.
Type: 
image
Format: 
1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 X 26 cm.
Contributor: 
Black Gold Cooperative Library System
Subject: 
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Subject: 
Burton Mound (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Subject: 
Chumash Indians -- California -- Santa Barbara County
Subject: 
Funeral rites & ceremonies -- Chumash Indian -- California -- Santa Barbara
Language: 
eng
Copyright Holder: 
Copyright status unknown.
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Note: 
Part of "Historical Photos of Four Ethnicities on California's Central Coast" Collection
Note: 
Originally published as part of Native Americans on the Central Coast: a photo essay
Identifier: 
NA087
Filename: 
BG-NA-14-087.jpg