1. Karankawa and Coahuiltecan

2. Karankawa Hunter-gatherers
Lived between Galveston and Corpus Christi Bay
They were nomads or groups of people who moved from place to place
During fall and winter months they lived near the coast
During the spring and summer they moved away from the coast

3. Men Were tall and muscular Painted and their bodies
They loved to wrestle and have all kinds of physical contests

4. Women
Single women had a single stripe of running across their face

5. Their Life
Clothing
Men sometimes wore nothing or a deerskin cloth worn around the waist
Women wore skirts made out of deerskin or grass
Both painted their bodies with bright colors
To keep insects away they rubbed alligator/ shark fat and dirt on their skin.

6. Diet They used dugout canoes to fish
Depended on the bow and arrow to hunt
Hunted sea turtles and deer
Collected shellfish and bird eggs

7. Their Life cont.
They got along well with the Spanish and were easy to trade with
Lived in small groups
Were protective of the swamps
Religion was headed by Shamans
practiced ritualistic cannibalism

8. Coahuiltecan
Lived in southern Texas
Were hunter-gatherers and nomads

9. Diet
Because the climate was very dry the Coahuiltecan became hunter-gatherers to support themselves.
deer and javelina or hogs
Mesquite beans
Ate practically everything because of the climate
Spiders
Lizards
Worms
Snakes
Ant eggs
Rotten wood
Deer dung
Fly larvae

10. Culture Mitotes or all-night celebrations
Occasionally fought small scale wars with each other over food sources
accepting of the missionaries and were easily converted to Christianity