About 50 manos, or hand tools, nutcrackers and other grinding-tool relics used by the Tongva/Gabrielino Indians in the village known as Ashuukshanga will be on public view at the Azusa Public Library, 729 N. Dalton Ave.
Ashuukshanga, where Azusa derived its name, was one of the larger villages where the aboriginal people lived in thatched concave enclosures and circular huts.
The artifacts were unearthed in December by an archaeology firm hired by the city to monitor the grading of Rosedale, a 1,250-home neighborhood on the former Monrovia Nursery property below the Angeles National Forest.
Gabrielino/Tongva Web site:
http://www.tongva.com/
Gabrielino/Tongva Springs Foundation:
http://www.onionskin.com/gabrielino/index.html
Azusa Public Library:
http://www.ci.azusa.ca.us/library
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