CALIFORNIA INDIAN ARTS & CRAFTS in Old Town, San Diego
HOWKA! Or haawka in our Kumeyaay Indian language translates into hello!
NOTICE:
Shumup Ko Hup store is currently closed. Please contact us for more information.
We are currently converting the business to online sales.
SHUMUP KO HUP Indian store and Native American gift shop specializes in authentic California Indian Arts & Crafts, Ethnographic Native American Tribal Art and rare hard to find modern cultural artifacts, designs, patterns and accurate information for collectors, interior designers, museums, schools and teachers.
We feature fine Native American mission baskets for sale, mission basket art, the California Indian basketry of the Indigenous Kumeyaay artists of San Jose de la Zorra, Juntas de Neji, Santa Catarina, San Antonio Necua and La Huerta of Baja California, including award winning professional master Kumeyaay weavers like Eva Salazar and Kumeyaay gourd artists like Daleane Adams of San Diego County.
NATIVE AMERICAN OWNED & OPERATED BUSINESS
SHUMUP KO HUP is owned and operated by San Diego Kumeyaay Indian families. We buy and sell only real genuine Native American arts and crafts handmade by local aboriginal Indian artists in the greater Southern California area, including northern California and Baja California norte.
SHUMUP KO HUP is the world's premiere Native American gift shop and online shopping guide for authentic California Native American Indian Kumeyaay Baskets | Pottery | Ribbon Dresses | Bead work | Bark Skirts | Gourd Art | Beaded Collars | Bows and Arrows | Lances | Rabbit Sticks | Horsehair Accessories | War Clubs | Cradle Baskets | Basket Jewelry | Gourd Rattles | Dolls | Sculptures | Spurs and Bits| Braided Rawhide Reatas | Stone Tools | Net Bags | Fiber Sandals | Herbal Soaps | Books | Videos | Maps | Music CDs | Ceremonial Sage for sale.
Please see our extensive on-line catalogs at www.howka.com for professional specialty photos pictures photographs pics picts images about our unique gift ideas, including interior design ideas for residential and commercial interior decorating. We are the number one worldwide Native American source, the place where to buy, sell and promote real California Indian tribal arts and crafts.
NATIVE AMERICAN ART GALLERY
For more than 10 years, SHUMUPKOHUP owners have directly encouraged, promoted and supported the traditional Native American aboriginal tribal artists of California, southwestern Arizona, and northern Baja, to help assist them to sell their Indian arts and crafts to revive and preserve the ageless cultural traditions of the Yuman peoples, including the Cocopah Cucapa, Kumeyaay Kumiai, Quechan, Mojave Mohave, Paipai Pai Pai, Ipai Tipai, Kiliwa, Yavapai, Havasupai, Hualapai, Maricopa, Gabrielino, Luiseño, Kawia, Juaneño, Chemehuevi, Serrano, and Cahuilla Indigenous peoples.
CALIFORNIA INDIGENOUS EDUCATION
SHUMUP KO HUP and its associates remain committed to quality public education to learn about the Southern Calif aboriginal tribes of North America.
Our circle of experts on Native American Indian subjects hosts special events and classes at our Old Town cultural store, and present tribal cultural information to students and teachers in schools and during field trips to known Native American Indian sites and museums. We can help you find professional qualified people to speak and perform at your events, and to consult or produce your creative materials for accurate culture and history on California Indigenous peoples.
We also loan items from our extensive CA Indian ethnographic collections to museums, public institutions, and art galleries for private and public exhibition.
MOVIE FILM MEDIA PRINT CONSULTANTS Network
In addition to academic lecturing and live character performance art about California Indians of Southern California, southwest Arizona and northwest Mexico, SHUMUP KO HUP experts consult to national and international museums, print and news media organizations, book publishers, TV, Hollywood movie and film companies location scouting, commercial guide services specializing in San Diego County and northern Baja California indigenous sites.
We are a network of experienced prop finders and ethnography consultants with our own large collections of ancient California Native artifacts. We offer Indian props for movies, photography props and prop styling services, as well as stock photography, stock audio recordings, and creative video and graphic services for print and internet publishing.
We also provide casting services and head shots online for real-life southwestern Native American models and actors for photo shoots, TV commercials, tribal documentaries, Indian films to assist directors and talent agents to find unique real-looking Native tribal people in the greater So California area.
GREATER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA
Local areas within the greater SHUMUP KO HUP area include: San Diego County, La Jolla, Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar, Escondido, La Mesa, El Cajon, Alpine, Santee, Spring Valley, Vista, Julian, Jamul, Lakeside, Encinitas, Carmel, Chula Vista, National City, Bonita, Lemon Grove, Imperial Beach, San Ysidro, Los Angeles, Hollywood, San Francisco, Sacramento, Mendocino, Fresno, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Oceanside, Santa Cruz, Guadaloupe, San Bernardino, Modoc, Ventura, Kern, San Luis Obispo, Imperial County, Orange County, Riverside, Imperial Valley, Palm Springs, Colorado River areas, Las Vegas and Somerton AZ. In Baja California, Mexico: Mexicali, Tijuana, Tecate, Rosarito, Ensenada, San Jose de la Zorra, Juntas de Neji, El Mayor, San Antonio Necua, La Huerta and Santa Catarina Mexican tribal villages.
SHUMUP KO HUP in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park
HOURS: STORE IS CLOSED
TELE: 619.573.9911
INTERNET: www.howka.com
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