A Chumash Indian rock art painting depicting a swordfish.
The rock holding the swordfish.
A pictograph found in a cave adjacent the boulder holding the swordfish.
A boulder found just outside the cave holding the pictograph shown in the previous photo.
A view from the cave. Once out from underneath the riparian zone, the shady canopy of coast live oak trees shrouding the creek, it is an entirely different world, an exposed hot landscape covered in scrub brush and annual grasses.
Bedrock mortars near pictograph site.
The bedrock mortar stone shown in previous photo seen again here.
Riparian environment near rock art site running along the foot of the rocky slope.
Replicas of Chumash tule-thatched huts at a nearby re-creation of a village.
A thatched tule hut somebody built along the Ventura River mouth a couple of years ago.
Building a replica of a Chumash thatched hut at the Ventura County Fair in 1923.
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