Maidu women wore a basket cap made of tules. Tattooing was done by the Maidu. The men often had vertical lines on the chin. Women also had tattoos on the chest, arms, and abdomen. The tattoo was made by piercing the skin with a fish bone or pine needle, and rubbing in a dye or charcoal. ...

Maidu, North American Indians who spoke a language of Penutian stock and originally lived in a territory extending eastward from the Sacramento River to the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountains and centring chiefly in the drainage of the Feather and American rivers in California, U.S.. As with other tribes of California Indians, the Maidu ate seeds and acorns and hunted elk, deer, bears ...

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Estimates for the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. Alfred L. Kroeber estimated the 1770 population of the Maidu (including the Konkow and Nisenan) as 9,000. Sherburne F. Cook raised this figure slightly, to 9,500.. Kroeber reported the population of the Maidu in 1910 as 1,100. The 1930 census counted 93, following decimation by infectious ...

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The Maidu, which means “the people,” lived not only in the Sacramento Valley, but also in the surrounding foothills. The southernmost were called the Nisenan, which means “from among us” or “on our side”. Maidu society consisted of tribelets. A tribelet was a group of two to twenty or more villages.

The Maidu tribe spoke in the Penutian language The Maidu people were comprised of three groups. The Northeastern or Mountain Maidu lived on the upper North and middle forks of the Feather River. The Northwestern or Konkow lived below the high Sierra and in the Sacramento Valley.

The Maidu Indians of Northern California have three major cultural and linguistic divisions. The Concow (or Konkow) Maidu live primarily in Butte County; they are called the West People.

The Maidu spoke a language held by some authorities to be of the penutian linguistic stock. While all Maidu spoke a form of this language the grammer, syntax and vocabulary differed sufficiently that Maidu seperated by large distanced or by geographic features that discouraged

The Maidu didn’t really trade but still traded with the Achumawi, konkow, Atsugewi, NE Pomo, Shasta, Hupa all those tribes lived in Northern part of California.The Maidu traded with the Wintu because they lived close to the Maidu. The Maidu traded between the Mountains and the Central Valley or they traded at Susanville, Westwood, Greenville ...

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Les femmes et les filles utilisées Maidu pierres de fraisage, qui étaient plus grands que les pierres de marteau, piler les glands en farine. . L'ère paléolithique inférieure de a duré près de 200.000 ans et a vu certains de la production de l'outil le plus rudimentaire. . également appelé stéatite, est une roche de talc . …

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