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1. Red salmon and red cedar bark: Another Look at the Nineteenth-century Kwakwaka'wakw Winter Ceremonial.

Author

Berman, Judith

Subjects
*KWAKIUTL (North American people), *NATIVE American rites & ceremonies, *RITES & ceremonies
Abstract

Discusses the 19th century winter ceremony of the Kwakwaka'wakw people of British Columbia. Eyewitness description of the ceremony in 1894 to 1895 by Franz Boas; Complex of dance, drama, art, potlatching and community interaction with the spirit Otherworld; Layers of historical accretion in the ceremonial that help to obscure its essential core.

Published
2000

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