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Kwakiutl (1678 bytes)
1: '''Kwakiutl''' is a term used to describe a group of [[Canada...
3: Traditionally, the Kwakiutl were organized into about thirty independent trib...
5: ...rease and there has been a revival of interest in Kwakiutl culture and art, primarily due to the progressive...
9: (''see also'': [[Kwakiutl mythology]])
11: [[de:Kwakiutl]]

Kwakiutl mythology (1423 bytes)
1: The [[Kwakiutl]] are a [[Canada|Canadian]] tribe of [[Native Ame...
7: Of particular importance in Kwakiutl [[culture]] is the secret society called [[Hamats...

Raven (mythology) (835 bytes)
1: ...rthwest North America, including the [[Haida]], [[Kwakiutl]] and [[Tsimshian]].
5: ... to be confused with [[Kwakwakalanooksiwae]] in [[Kwakiutl mythology]].

Native American mythology (661 bytes)
17: *[[Kwakiutl mythology|Kwakiutl]]

In the Land of the Head Hunters (529 bytes)
1: ...] [[documentary film]] showing the lives of the [[Kwakiutl]] Indians of [[British Columbia]].

Potlatch (3230 bytes)
1: ...h as the [[Haida]], [[Tlingit]], [[Salish]] and [[Kwakiutl]] (Kwakwaka'kawakw). The potlatch takes the form ...
3: ... nineteenth centuries. Some groups, such as the [[Kwakiutl]], used the potlatch as an arena in which highly ...

Nootka (2202 bytes)
1: .... The Nootka are related to the [[Chinook]] and [[Kwakiutl]] peoples, and the Nootka language is part of the...

Thunderbird (mythology) (5574 bytes)
5: ...", meaning "winged", and "wakan", "sacred". The [[Kwakiutl]] called him "Hohoq," and the [[Nootka]] called h...
11: The plural thunderbirds (as the [[Kwakiutl]] and [[Cowichan]] tribes believed) could take on...

Synthetic language (4792 bytes)
9: ... languages of the [[Canadian Northwest Coast]] ([[Kwakiutl]]) and the [[Amazon rain forest]] ([[Desana]]).

Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (8972 bytes)
24: ...mark his installation as an Honorary Chief of the Kwakiutl, the first white man to be so honoured. The totem...

List of fictional birds (8740 bytes)
14: * [[Hokhokw]] in [[Kwakiutl mythology]]
18: * [[Kwakwakalanooksiwae]] in [[Kwakiutl mythology]]

Vancouver Island (4922 bytes)
5: ...[Salish]] on the south and east coasts, and the [[Kwakiutl]] in the centre of the island and the north.

First Nations of Canada (5574 bytes)
39: *[[Kwakiutl]]

Totem pole (7246 bytes)
8: ...aintings of the Wakashan-speaking Kwak-wakw-wakw (Kwakiutl) peoples are the best-known examples of this styl...

List of deities (21927 bytes)
476: == [[Kwakiutl mythology]] ==

Mythology (11698 bytes)
66: ... [[Iroquois mythology]] - [[Huron mythology]] - [[Kwakiutl mythology]] - [[Lakota mythology]] - [[Leni Lenap...

Franz Boas (61356 bytes)
57: ...wever, he repudiated himself, and argued that the Kwakiutl were changing from a prior patrilineal organizati...
61: ...rom British Columbia to come and reside in a mock Kwakiutl village, where they could perform their daily tas...
118: ...n Alaskan needlecases, he now saw variation among Kwakiutl practices as the result of the play between socia...
155: ...similarly came to criticize his own early work in Kwakiutl (Pacific Northwest) language and mythology.

List of religions (13152 bytes)
198: **[[Kwakiutl mythology]]

Bat (12860 bytes)
114: ...]] and geographical [[Macedonia]] and among the [[Kwakiutl]] and [[Arab]]s.

Classification of Native Americans (16087 bytes)
316: *[[Kwakiutl]] ([[Kwakwala or Kwakwa'kwa'kw]])

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