• Pronunciation: Tee-Moo-Kwa • About 150,000 Timucua Indians livedin North Florida and South Georgia over1000 years ago.• When the Spanish arrived in the 1500s,they brought germs and diseases whichkilled many thousands Timucuas. Thereare no direct descendants of theTimucuas living today.• Archaelogists and artists are responsiblefor our knowing about Timucuan historyand culture.• Timucuan families lived in groupscalled clans. Children had many chores,but also time to play games that taughtthe skills they would need when theygrew up.• Most Timucuas lived in villages nearthe water. Their houses were circular, oneroom houses, made of tree trunk frames covered by dried palm fronds.

Interesting Facts About the Timucua

Interesting Facts About the Timucua• Both men and women decorated their skins withtattoos and paint, and their long hair with feathers,sticks, bones, leaves and raccoon tails. • Warriors wore shell jewelry to create additionalnoise as they approached their enemies, creating theimpression of increased numbers of combatants.• Timucuas hunted with bows and arrows, and withspears that had ends made of a stone called chert.Hunters often dressed as the animal they werehunting, as is depicted in the painting by Theodore

Morris entitled “PantherWarrior,” the inspiration fortoday’s mask activity.• The Timucua used every partof the animals they hunted.Meat and fish were preserved as“jerky” by smoking it over a fire.They used animal bones tomake needles, ear pins, whistles,flutes, knives, hoes, axes, and fishhooks. Animal skins wereused for clothing, coverings, and packs.

Timucua shell jewelryand tattoos

• Both men and women decorated theirskins with tattoos and paint, and theirlong hair with feathers, sticks, bones,leaves and raccoon tails. • Warriors wore shell jewelry to createadditional noise as they approached theirenemies, creating the impression ofincreased numbers of combatants.

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Timucua tattoos