TAOS TRIBE

BY MADIS

ON NEW

ITT

AND BRIA

NNA MORRE

MENS WORK

Hunting animals such as deerFishing for troutMaking animal hidesLeading secret religion groupsProtecting the familyTrading with other Indian

tribesBuilding multi-level pueblo’s

WOMAN’S WORK

• Gathering crops and food• Caring for children• Weaving baskets for

carrying water, storing grain and cooking.

• Lining baskets with pitch (waterproofing them)

• Cooking with heated stones in water.

• Making pottery, such as pots, bowls, canteens, ladles, jars, and mugs.

PUEBLO FOOD

• Farming - beans, corn, squash• Gathering - wild nuts (pinon nuts), seeds

(sunflower and mustard seeds), berries, Indian rice grass and amaranth

• Hunting - Wild deer, turkey, rabbits, squirrels, game

CRAFTS

Turquoise jewelry

Woven blankets

Woven baskets

Earthen clay pottery

PUEBLO HOMES

1. Pit houses – sunken homes made from timber, mud and animal skins

2. Above ground pole and adobe homes

3. Homes made from sandstone with 50 rooms

4. Kivas – gathering places for each clan

5. Cliff Dwellings

PUEBLO HOMES

• Stone cities and villages on plateaus and in sandstone cliffs in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah.

• Found in the Four Corners Region of America.

• You can see their homes at the Mesa Verde National Park.

TAOS PUEBLO HISTORY

• Native Pueblans lived in the Four Corners Region of America 1,400 years ago, before Europeans came to North America. They lived there for 700 years.

• Sometime around the 1200s, they left their homes and moved away. No one knows the reason why they left.

REFERENCES

http://www.nps.gov/meve/historyculture/people.htm

http://indianvillage.com/aboutus.htmhttp://www.ehow.com/info_8548301_foods-

ancient-puebloans-ate.html#ixzz29hxFHD5Vhttp://beyondbuckskin.blogspot.com/2011/09/

some-history-ancient-southwest-jewelry.html