Lifestyles

Week One Lifestyles: Basketmaker III and Pueblo I-III

Lifestyles lessons provide the opportunity for students to experience first-hand what life would have been like for ancestral Pueblo peoples. During the first week, HSFS visited Crow Canyon's reconstruction of a Basketmaker III pithouse dwelling and the Pueblo Learning Center. We also tried our hand at lifestyle activities including fire starting (using a hearth board, spindle stick, and bow drill) and yucca cord twisting.

A view from inside the unfinished portion of the pithouse

Anne models Pueblo III women's clothing

Students working in the shade of the tower at the Pueblo Learning Center

Paul demonstrates fire starting with the bow drill

Johanna and Ali make progress towards fire

Keren and Kate B are smokin'!

Lindsay practices twisting yucca cordage into string

Emily twists yucca in the doorway to the Pueblo

A view of the tower from below

Kate W climbs up into the Tower

Jay works on his cordage with a view of the Sleeping Ute Mountain in the background

Kate B and Keren pose on top of the tower

All members of Sean's groups (A & B) started fire!

Web page designed by Katie McEnaney and Sean Steele. Last updated August 15, 2005.

Photos for the HSFS 2005 web site were taken by Keren Engoltz, Paul Ermigiotti,
Shaine Gans, Lew Matis, Katie McEnaney, Angela Schwab, and Sean Steele.