Wavelins

1. Wavelins Sarah Niles, Amiyah, Kelli, Emily, and Nick

2. Background of Culture • Time-In the future 3047-4019. • Geographic setting-Underwater by a coral reef • Physical description of people-good memory girls and boys webbed feet and hands.

3. Clothing The wavelins wore woven seaweed dyed with poisons berries that they can not eat. The wavelins accessories is shells, coral, and sand.

4. Recreation • Games and sports: they swim, they play water hockey with a cland puck, they also play water tennis, and they also do relay races underwater. • Use of leisure time: the girls like to make jewelry when they have free time. The boys play the sports listed above and the girls do too sometimes.

5. Food • The Wavelins mostly ate berries but they eat shellfish, seaweed salad with shellfish dressing and berry juice. • There is one meal in the middle of the day but there is a snack before the meal and a snack after the meal. • Here is a picture of seaweed:

6. Shelter Wavelin homes are tunnel homes under the reef. Homes were beautifully decorated with… … pottery made out of cland (cland is clay and sand compressed so tightly together that it is not affected by water but can be molded by Wavelin hands) … paintings made of cloth dyed with poisonous berries that they can’t eat …pillows made from seagull and pelican feathers are perfect highlights on beds and couches … anglerfish lights illuminate the rooms with colored beams of light Homes are made with cland walls and a cland roof. Floors are made of driftwoodor pebbles crafted into murals. Sometimes sea glass is added for color. There are no doors but door frames are decorated with sea urchins. Windows are made of sea glass melted together to make the iridescent illusion.

7. Our Medicine Bottles • Emily- mymedicine bottle is a “Learning About Fish” container. It is used for Wavelin kids who need to know about the insides and workings of a living fish. The Hassa Fish is clear but it can not be exposed to any white light, hence the orange tint. • Sarah Niles-My medicine bottle is a berry containment unit. It is filled with a special gel that keeps the berries from ever spoiling. • Nicholas- my medicine bottle is a pet container. The pet container is something to hold new born and baby pets when you buy them. It’s also a feeder for them. The new pets are contained and fed in the container. The pets are put in the container right after birth . Are too attached to the thing they see first to let go of it, so it’s best to keep the container. • Amiyah-my medicine bottle is used as the pillows for the little Wavelins. It has comfortable plastic. • Kelli- my medicine bottle is used as a storage unit for the Wavelins’ valuables such as pearls and precious shells.

8. Family and Kin • The Wavelins never divorce. They are very agreeable creatures. • They live in one big tunnel house. There are four wings; the north, the south, the east and the west. There is an entrance in each wing. • In each wing there are at least four clans. In each clan there are ten couples and twenty kids. There are singles clans as well where single adults and orphans live. • The Wavelinstrain their children by typing what their kids need to learn into their berry mush breakfast bar so the kids immediately learn what they were supposed to learn by eating breakfast. In Waveworld, they really mean it when they say “Eat your brain food!!”

9. Political Organization • The Wavelins have a democracy(they vote for everything). Some types of leaders( these leaders are elected) are…waverunners who go to other underwater worlds, wavejudges who judge truthtellers truthfulness, and truthtellers who spread truthful rumors. • Wavewatchers watch everything that goes on in Waveworld so they are consulted by waveofficers when Wavelins are about to be arrested and turned into wavecrims. • The only war the Wavelins have had was the War of the Sharks. They are very peaceful.

10. Communications • The Wavelins communicate by making clicking noises with their tongue, by making tapping rhythms with their fingerfins, or by speaking Pig Latin( Igpay Atinlay). • When Wavelins write, their writing communication is Braille. • For numbers it’s pretty simple they have different symbols and names for each number and when they say large numbers they just say the symbols names in a large string.

11. Art • Art is very prized to Wavelins. Some examples of art are: cland pots, weavings woven with seaweed or with cloth fibers from a shipwreck, paintings on sedimentary rock “canvases”, murals made of sea glass, and glass blown vases. The first known Wavelin art was found in a underwater cave, on the walls, drawn with waterchalk (chalk that doesn’t dissolve in water). We think it was drawn about 3050.

12. What is right and wrong in their culture What is right: Even numbers What is wrong: Odd numbers . Fun fact!! They believe so strongly in odd numbers being bad they always have an even number of kids!!

13. Attitude toward the unknown • They HATE sharks as they had a BIG battle a long time ago and have hated each other ever since, other than that they never have any visitors. . Fun Fact: The shark leader’s name is Jeffery.

14. Religion • They believe in a shell goddess who is the reason every thing works. . Fun Fact: The reason they care so much about even numbers is because when she first erected her first word was supposedly “even”.

15. Literature • They don’t teach there kids how to read and write because when the wavelins are born they all ready know everything when they are born • fish in the area and how to protect against sharks.

16. Q and A; Themes • Values Q: what is important to the people? A: their families, pearls, coins, and other expensive things in their cultures. Q: What do they do with these things? A: they keep the expensive things to make clothing and decoration. And they keep the children in pair • Symbols: Q: what to the wavelins use to silently communicate? A: they use a dot like pattern somewhat like brail. Q: what do they made this pattern with? A: rocks and pebbles or shells and groves in the sand.

17. Music in their culture • They usually tap their finger fins and sing in pig Latin. They enjoy using percussion that they make by using shark skin stretched over hollow circular coral. They usually enjoy coming together to sing and dance in different holidays such as crab day, wavelin day, and fleek day.

18. Money system The wavelins money system is very complex. In the early part of their you got money by jobs the money is little rubber ducks that fell in the ocean a long time from now, but they found out that there where too many people where poor so they researched and found a way to make them. They can make enough to not be poor but if someone gets rich they have to live with their parents and move back to the lowest rank: an infant. Then they have to rise back through the ranks

19. technology • Lamare: a thermal camera that detects and shoots exploding water balloons at enemies. • Resteradol: is an entertainment system that keeps infants happy, and safe with it’s laser gun feature. • Toodoodle: a little portable electronic hand held game to be played to see who can get to get to the town last (it’s on a little starmanda screen)(it goes on forever but it’s good for the adults that think their kids are annoying). • Starmanda: a electronic devise that requires gornadsad to work while traveling so kids can be quiet or more chatty than usual. • Gonadsad: the power source.