TONGVA LIVING HISTORY GARDEN
VIDEO GALLERY
Students from the Claremont Colleges join the Tongva Living History Garden for a day of spring planting, weeding, and landscaping with Nick Hummingbird.
Passing out the Elderberry clapsticks to sing the welcome song.
Students from the Claremont Colleges join the Native Cooking and Medicine workshop for a planting and clean-up day!
Barbara leads students through the history of the Tongva Era Native Food Garden
Barbara speaks to the medicinal, spiritual and cultural uses of the plants in the Tongva Era Medicine and Basketry Gardens
Barbara speaks to the medicinal, spiritual and cultural uses of the plants in the Tongva Era Medicine and Basketry Gardens
Photo Gallery from the Tongva Living History Garden Workshop Series (Fall 2018)
Barbara teaches workshop participants about different uses and varieties of traditional teas, including rose hips and stinging nettles teas. They then got to put together their own tea bags and take them home to enjoy!
Barbara teaches us how to make two different kinds of salsas using fresh tomatillos that we harvested in the previous workshop. Yum!
Workshop participants learn how to make and play a Tongva dice game. The game is made using walnuts, crushed abalone shells, and black clay (in place of tar). The walnuts were harvested at a workshop last year and were cleaned at the previous workshop.
For a workshop on basketry, Barbara first takes the group to the garden where different basketry plants grow, including deer grass and juncus. She taught us about different baskets the Tongva use and what materials they use to make them. Participants were then able to make and take home their own baskets!
Barbara shows workshop participants a native plant called dogbane, which is a common material used to make traditional cordage. Participants learned what cordage is used for and how to make it themselves!