Table of Contents
- 1 What did the Conchos trade?
- 2 Why did the jumano tribe often trade with other tribes?
- 3 Which culture do the Concho Indians belong to?
- 4 What did the Concho eat?
- 5 What did Jumano Indians trade?
- 6 How did the Concho live?
- 7 Where did the Concho Indians live in Mexico?
- 8 What did the Concho Indians do with the Jumano Indians?
- 9 Who was the first person to make concha belts?
What did the Conchos trade?
The conchos traded food, pottery and personal goods.
Why did the jumano tribe often trade with other tribes?
From their recognized homeland between the Pecos and Concho Rivers in Texas, the Jumano traveled widely to trade meat and skins to the Patarabueye and other Indians in exchange for agricultural products.
Which culture do the Concho Indians belong to?
The conchos (Self-styled: Yoli ) were an ethnic group from the North of Mexico and the South of the United States, belonging to the Uto-Aztec stock and of semi-nomadic life.
What region of Texas did the Concho tribe live in?
The Concho Indians lived near the junction of the Río Concho River and Río Grande Rivers in northern Chihuahua. This region – known as La Junta de los Ríos – is a historic farming and trading area. The present-day towns of Presidio (Texas) and Ojinaga (Chihuahua) lay at the center of this region.
What is the purpose of a Concho?
Conchos come from the Mexican vaquero tradition and serve both a decorative and a utilitarian role on western saddles. Conchos are metal disks, traditionally with two slits to allow saddle strings to pass through and secure the saddle’s skirts to the saddle tree.
What did the Concho eat?
Like the Jumanos, the Conchos farmed and gathered wild plants to eat. The men hunted deer, birds, and rabbits; they fished in the rivers and gathered clams.
What did Jumano Indians trade?
The Jumano traded with other groups for things they could not grow or make. They traded foods such as dried corn, squash, and beans for buffalo hides and meat. They also traded for cloth, shells, salt, and other goods, There are no Jumano villages in Texas today.
How did the Concho live?
The Chizos Indians lived near the mouth of the Concho River where it joins the Rio Grande near the Big Bend region. The Chizos probably lived a short distance up and down the Rio Grande River near where the Concho River joined it.
How are concho belts worn?
They were strung vertically on red trade cloth, horse hair, or leather. Men would wear this stripe of adornment in their hair and women would wear them as belts, sometimes reaching six feet long. The Navajos owned concha belts long before they learned silversmithing.
What kind of food did the Concho Indians eat?
The Concho’s lived in huts covered in/with grass or animal skin. The Concho’s ate berries, nuts, roots, cactus fruit, deer, birds, and rabbits. The Caddo’s were farmers but hunted as well. The Concho’s lived in the Mountains & Basins region.
Where did the Concho Indians live in Mexico?
Back to the Texas Indians home page at WWW.TexasIndians.com. The Concho River is right between the Chihuahua region and the Coahuila region of northern Mexico. One band of the Conchos was called the Chizos. The Chizos Indians lived near the mouth of the Concho River where it joins the Rio Grande near the Big Bend region.
What did the Concho Indians do with the Jumano Indians?
Most of the early accounts describe the Concho and Jumano as being friends and being very similar in appearance and culture. During the Spanish Colonial period the Jumano and the Concho Indians joined together several times to revolt against the Spanish.
Who was the first person to make concha belts?
These early designs originated from iron harness buckles and cast silver conchas with scalloped edges used for spurs. The first Southwest American Indian concha belt was attributed to a Navajo named Arsidi Chon (Ugly Smith). It was hammered from Mexican silver pesos in 1868 or 1869.