THE CHUMASH STASH: The Chumash not only ate plenty of shark, they also fashioned the centra of a shark's vertebrae into jewelry and talismans, such as these. [Paul Wellman]
Posted on 08/17/2008 3:00:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
According to the archaeological record, sharks (and rays, their close relative) were the number two source of protein for coastal Chumash after sardines, at least for the past 1,000 or so years... Specifically, the coastal Chumash were eating the easier-to-catch near-shore species such as leopard shark, angel shark, soupfin shark, and swell shark... The Chumash also ate many species of rays, but seemed to prefer the shovelnose guitarfish, which is wide like a ray in its torso but lanky and finned like a shark on the tail... The guitarfish, like other small sharks and rays, lives part of its life in estuaries, so the Chumash would wait for tidal changes in such places as the Goleta slough and the Carpinteria lagoon, set up fishing stations or traps near the estuary's mouth, and go to town on the escaping beasts.
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THE CHUMASH STASH: The Chumash not only ate plenty of shark, they also fashioned the centra of a shark's vertebrae into jewelry and talismans, such as these. [Paul Wellman]
They used shark’s skin as sandpaper to smooth out the pine and redwood used to build their seagoing canoes called “Tomols” The finned shark features in some of their rock art I believe as well.
If they ate sardines where are all the tin cans?
The great whites were very populous in So. Calif until the early 20th century.
They were fished out almost completely 1000 miles out by the late 40s.
My uncle made a living fishing them for their livers which were used to manfacture vitamin B12 (I believe and can’t confirm since my uncle is now dead) and 50 years ago he told me they will be back.
I wonder if one can use a guitarfish to practice scales?
Yes.
Further, if you used a guitarfish to practice scales, you were more apt to fin-ish...
I’m always afraid I’ll get a FReepmail from the mgmt, something to the effect that, “due to the puns, we’ve banjo”.
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“due to the puns, we’ve banjo”.
“Banjo” what?
Jo mama?
Jo azz?
Jo sef?
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