Toyon

Scientific: Heteromeles arbutifolia 

Common: Toyon 

Español: Toyon 

Chumash ('alapkaswa'): qwe’ 

As an important food plant, the berries were toasted over a fire or dried in the sun and allowed to sit for a few days before eating. The hard wood was used to make fishhooks, harpoons, arrows, spears, awls, needles, pins for headdresses, offertory poles, digging sticks, reamers, wedges, hide scrapers, pestles, bowls, drinking cups, walking stick, war clubs, canoe pegs, cradle frames, handles for drill bits and chisels, and various gaming implements. Toyon sticks were used to make racks for smoking fish, and wood was used in fires for the same purpose. 

Source: Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge Among the Chumash People of Southern California by Jan Timbrook

'alapkaswa' refers to the local Chumash dialect spoken at the kaswa’ village near modern Hope Ranch.