Example sentences for: kwakiutl

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A splendid group of Haida and Kwakiutl totem poles nearby illustrate the province’s other important cultural influence.

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


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