Timbisha

The Timbisha Shoshone homeland encompasses Death Valley and the mountains around it. The name Timbisha refers to the red ochre used as rock paint. In this desert country, families moved with the seasons between springs, mesquite groves and higher ground. They gathered mesquite beans in the valleys and pinyon nuts in the mountains, and hunted game along the way. The great difference in elevation gave them access to different harvests within a land of formidable heat and dryness.