The items involved in the cultural return were: two baskets; a steatite stone model of a Chumash tomol (plank canoe); and a photograph of Santa Ynez Chumash ancestors from the early 1900s.

The four items involved in the cultural return were: two baskets; a steatite stone model of a Chumash tomol (plank canoe); and a photograph of Santa Ynez Chumash ancestors from the early 1900s. “We ...

Two woven baskets, a steatite stone model of a Chumash tomol (plank canoe), and a photograph of Santa Ynez Chumash ancestors from the early 1900s were recently returned the Santa Ynez Chumash ...

Peering at a river mouth where Ventureño Chumash once paddled in a canoe they called “tomol” and gathered small mussels, or "kiw," Matthew Vestuto envisions a day when an infant burbles out ...

Chumash people were the first to create tomol canoes used for fishing and transportation to the Channel Islands. The proposal ...