Tongva: People of the Earth ~ As you leave the sea cave, you will encounter an exhibit of Tongva Indians.  The Tongva were among the earliest human inhabitants of the Palos Verdes Peninsula and they lived here for thousands of years. The Tongva were highly skilled hunters and gatherers and traded salt, shell beads and dried fish products with inland native tribes.  In the diorama, the woman is stringing olive shell beads and sitting on a large whale vertebra. The man is carving an effigy of a whale from steatite.  The house is called a Kish and is made of willow, reeds and grasses.  There is also a stone mano and metate in the scene.