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“Crazy Old Millie,” as she was known locally — “Klee Wyck” or the “Laughing One” to her Kwakiutl Indian friends — was a popular eccentric in Victoria, where she kept a boarding house and wheeled a pet monkey around in a baby carriage.
Before European textiles arrived on the scene, the Kwakiutl pounded cedar bark until it was supple and soft enough to weave into capes, skirts, and blankets.
Carpentry is the most valued of Kwakiutl skills, and is spectacularly displayed in their totem poles.
In the 1880s the government banned this apparently wanton impoverishment, but the Kwakiutl, for whom wealth was measured by what they could give away, continued the practice clandestinely, disguising it as the distribution of Christmas presents.
One Kwakiutl giant accompanied by two slaves, emphasizing the homeowner’s power and prestige, originally supported a massive central roof beam.