Hmm, “1200-600 CE”?
https://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2018/08/whale-effigy-charm/
Looks like it should be 1200-1600 CE (or AD).
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Hmm, “1200-600 CE”?
https://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org/2018/08/whale-effigy-charm/
Looks like it should be 1200-1600 CE (or AD).
Indeed, according to anthropologist Robert L. Hoover, “the killer whale [orca] was regarded by the Chumash as a benevolent creature which drove schools of porpoises and whales ashore where they could be utilized by man.”