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Kwakiutl: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Kwakwaka’wakw

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Kwakiutl man wearing traditional regalia, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1914.
Kwakiutl: canoes
thunderbird mask of the Kwakiutl Indians
Kwakiutl: ceremonial dance attire
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Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist