What did Karana use to make skirts?

Karana would have made her skirt from surf grass, a marine plant that looks like long green hair and can be found in the tidepools around the island. The strands were rinsed, straightened, and partly dried before being woven into mats, twisted to make string, or made into women's skirts.

How did Karana make her clothes?

In The Island of Blue Dolphins, Karana's sandals are made of sealskin, her clothing of braided yucca fibers, and her skirt from cormorant feathers.

Why does Karana dress up sometimes?

Karana demonstrates a growing satisfaction with her life on the island as well as a return to the kind of life she lead before she was stranded alone on Ghalas-at. She makes herself a new wardrobe and wears it, just for the sake of looking nice.

What new weapons does Karana fashion?

Although animals come at night, they cannot get through the fence. Once her house is finished, Karana fashions some utensils from rocks. She makes a basket from reeds and seals it with pitch so that it can hold water.

What gift did Karana make for the Aleut girl?

Karana makes an abalone disk circlet for Tutok's hair. She misses Tutok when the Aleut girl leaves the island with the hunting group.

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What does Tutok look like?

Physical Description. The first thing the reader learns about Tutok is that she has long dark hair that shines in the light from the cooking fire. When Karana encounters her later, in Chapter 21, she describes Tutok as somewhat short, with a broad face and small black eyes.

What does Karana make Tutok?

Karana makes a circlet of shells for Tutok, who is grateful to receive such a beautiful gift. The next day, Tutok does not return, and Karana goes to the Harbor to see if the Aleut ship is still there.

What does Karana's dog's name mean?

To her surprise, Karana is somewhat disappointed, and begins to call out for the dog. When she enters her house, however, she finds the dog inside. That night she sleeps inside the house and decides to name the dog Rontu, which means Fox Eyes.

How old is Ulape?

Ulape. Karana's fourteen-year-old sister, Ulape likes jewelry and boys. Before she leaves the island, she paints the sign on her face that menas she is unmarried.

Is Island of the Blue Dolphins a true story?

Island of the Blue Dolphins is a work of historical fiction based on the life of an American Indian woman who spent 18 years in isolation on San Nicolas Island, one of eight Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California.

How did Karana tame Mon a nee?

Karana saves an otter from the kelp bed in Chapter 23 after the Aleutian hunters leave. Instead of killing the otter as the Aleuts would have done, she heals him and names him Mon-a-nee.

What happened in chapter 17 of Island of the Blue Dolphins?

After a fierce battle, Rontu leaves one of the dogs with a broken leg and the other fatally wounded. Rontu howls victoriously at the top of the mound and returns to Karana's home. After that, the pack splits into two, but never returns to Karana's home.

How did Karana get a new dog after Rontus death?

How did Karana get a new dog after Rontu's death? She put a mixture into the spring water to make the dogs go to sleep. Their ship had sunk in the storm, then their was no other ship.

What does Karana use to make her skirt and sandals?

During the time that Karana tames the birds, she also makes a yucca twine skirt for herself along with a sealskin belt and sealskin sandals.

How does Karana make her fence Why does she built this first?

Karana uses old whale bones to make a fence to keep out the wild dogs and fox. She builds it first because she does not trust the dogs from not attacking her. She needs to feel secure before she begins her shelter.

What karanas dad name?

Karana, Ulape, and Ramo's father, Chowig, is the chief of the Native American tribe on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Chowig is his “secret name”; he usually goes by another name that Karana never shares with readers.

Who is MON a nee?

Mon-a-nee is a young otter whom Karana finds, injured, in the kelp beds after the Aleut hunters return to the Island of the Blue Dolphins. His name means “little boy with large eyes.” Karana takes him from the kelp and puts him in a tidepool to heal.

How old is Ramo in Island of the Blue Dolphins?

Ramo is a curious and mischievous six-year-old boy who is the proud informant of everything that happens on the island.

What breed is Rontu?

Rontu is the former pet of the Aleutian hunters. "He was a much larger dog than any of ours," Karana tells us, "which besides have short hair and brown eyes. I was sure that he was an Aleut dog" (15.3). Rontu used to belong to the Aleut.

How did Karana get Rontu?

When she has finished fishing for the day, Karana heads home with her catch. On her way home, she hears dogs fighting in the woods. She follows the sound to a meadow by a low sea cliff. There, she finds Rontu fighting with two other dogs, surrounded by the rest of the pack.

How long does Karana stay in her new house until her leg heals?

Instead of trying to make it home, Karana crawls into a cave near the spring, where she stays for six days, only leaving to get more water, until her leg is healed and she can walk.

What are snares and why did Karana make them?

Karana makes snares with branches and baits them with fish, hoping to catch the dog. The snares catch other wild dogs, but not the one she wants.

What caused Rontu's death?

Rontu gets attacked by the devilfish. Rontu walks the cliffs with Karana. When the Aleuts return to town, Rontu meets up with his former owner, Tutok. Rontu dies.

What did Karana and Tutok the Aleut girl do together?

Tutok becomes friends with Karana when they exchange names and play games together during Tutok's short stay on the island. The friendship between the two girls is a very important one since it's based on understanding and communication with each other (even though they don't even speak the same language).