Tipatikka

The Tipatikka were a northern Shoshone group whose name means “pine-nut eaters”. Across the Great Basin, pine nuts were an important food gathered from mountain woodlands. Their harvest could bring families together in autumn, alongside communal hunts for rabbits and deer. At other times, Shoshone households travelled in smaller groups, gathering seeds and roots and hunting in the valleys and ranges that made up their homeland.