Example sentences for: kwakiutl

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  • Farther east is Thunderbird Park, home of the city’s most important collection of Indian carvings — Tsimshian and Haida totem poles, Salish sculpture of their chieftains, and a reconstructed Kwakiutl longhouse.

  • For the relative opulence of their way of life, the Kwakiutl of British Columbia’s Pacific coast on and around Vancouver Island count among the aristocrats of Canadian native peoples.

  • One Kwakiutl giant accompanied by two slaves, emphasizing the homeowner’s power and prestige, originally supported a massive central roof beam.

  • Inside the museum, alongside the artifacts of other Pacific civilizations, the rich culture of the coastal tribes — Haida, Kwakiutl, Salish, Tlingit, and Tsimshian — is beautifully displayed and illuminated in a space where the roof-glass seems to open the halls to the heavens.

  • 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.


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