Raven charmstone5/16/2023 I think the logo looks awesome and the board looks really good, so I was very happy to be able to try out the Atoll paddle board and see what it is like. First of all I must say it includes a very complete package with all the necessary accessories (except for a SUP kayak seat) to get you out on the water and started right away. The only downside here is the same as with other inflatable boards – too much plastic wrapping material. Please consider the environment and try to reduce this wrapping material to the minimal. I was just walking outside in my SUP outfit with my camera and drone and found this, what a coincidence! The board and accessories are sturdy enough to not need this much protection. The board is very stable, the size of 11′ x 32″ x 6″ ensures it is very stable and not wobbly at all. The only time it bends through is when you go sit on it outside of the water on two bars, like I did on the modeling picture. But who is really going to do that?Īccording to Atoll their paddle board has a weight limit of 400 lbs, but they have even tested it up to 700 lbs. So it can carry a lot without any problem, it even managed to carry my huge body without any problem! (I have lately gotten fat shaming comments here, can you imagine □?).įor a board that weighs only 21 lbs / 9.5 kg this is a great performance. I have tested some boards that were a lot heavier that could carry about the same weight. They wove baskets for leaching acorn meal, cooking, fishing, and winnowing grain and for storing ornaments of abalone, cut-and-drilled beads from Olivella shells, and complex feather dance regalia-all part of community life, whether everyday, social, and/or religious.įor over 10,000 years the ancestors of today's Ohlone Indians created art in what is now known as Silicon Valley. Photos: Joe Cavaretta (Muwekma Tribe) Kuksu ceremonial pendants, c. Kuksu ceremonial pendants from the Muwekma Ohlone ancestral heritage site CA-ALA-329, located in Coyote Hills East Bay Regional Park, are similar to those found in downtown San José made of red and black abalone shells. Charmstones, body paint, and Olivella shell beads were also part of the Kuksu religion and Ohlone art. Such art was related to shamanic visions and ceremonial religious performances. CA-ALA-329 dates from 150 BC to AD 1767 and was continuously used as a ceremonial mortuary mound for the ancestral Muwekma Ohlone nobility (men, women, children) and fallen warriors. Photos: Joe Cavaretta (Muwekma Tribe) Sandstone charmstones, red paint mortar, and Olivella shell beads. ![]() While natural resources were shared, certain art forms were owned. Jewelry (shell ornamentation and regalia) was associated with status and wealth based upon the family's lineage and ranking in the community. Photos: Alan Leventhal Stone Smoking Pipes ( Torepa) and Elk Antler Harpoons. Photos: Alan LeventhalĬalifornia Indians wove baskets with geometric designs and made pictographic (painted) and petroglyphic (pecked) rock art. The art skills of Ohlone people grew by encounters with and learning from people of neighboring cultures and language families. Aided by having skilled navigators and craft specialists and distance traveling, they traded, observed and developed complex forms of art. ![]() The arts of healing landscape management (periodic burning of the land) preserving habitat for natural foods and herbs the arts of hospitality of music and storytelling of sharing resources of home, boat, and sweatlodge ( tupen-tak) construction using natural materials and the arts of survival the art of building community-living communally, at times and in some aspects, in an egalitarian society as far as women were concerned, with respectful gender and generational relationships. ![]() Once widely known for the finest baskets, Ohlone women lost much of their material and spiritual culture when they labored in the valley's emerging agricultural economy. With the establishment of Spanish ranchos and an increasing hide trade, the decimated Ohlone population became a hidden minority, their native way of life increasingly influenced by Spanish/Mexican culture. Many Euro-American leaders with cultural and gender prejudices (U.S. women's right to vote didn't come till 1920 and women are still excluded from many religious and business leadership roles) did not accept the egalitarian nature of Indian society with respect to women, or that an Indian woman could have leadership responsibilities and high status, and they ignored or devalued Ohlone women's skills. Their traditional arts would take a long time to recover, because the evolving arts of survival and new art forms for community building took precedence.
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