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Kwakiutl artist selected (David Neel to be displayed at Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona). Windspeaker (2/1/1998)
...Vancouver resident impressed the selection committee: he was a unanimous choice for the show which will run until this July. The Kwakiutl photographer and carver will exhibit seven diptych photographs and three of his contemporary masks. In the past his work has...

Kwakiutl Wedding Canadisk/CanPix (6/15/1989)
Canadisk/CanPix 06-15-1989 Kwakiutl Wedding NAC/ANC Keyword: 1989 Ottawa Researchers/Dr. Alastair Sweeney

Canoe and Kwakiutl Paddlers Canadisk/CanPix (6/15/1989)
Canadisk/CanPix 06-15-1989 Canoe and Kwakiutl Paddlers c1903 NAC/ANC Keyword: 1989 Ottawa Researchers/Dr. Alastair Sweeney

INDIANS GET TO TELL THEIR TALE The Record (Bergen County, NJ) (12/20/1991)
...titled "Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch." The reason for this, says...herself is recognized as a world expert on Kwakiutl culture, in May of 1990 she invited a contingent of 10 Kwakiutl Indians from British Columbia to confer...

ON EXHIBIT: They Could Dish It Out The Washington Post (10/29/1993)
...perfected the art of warfare. When the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Coast go to battle...wall-to-wall wonderland of magnificent Kwakiutl carvings and costumes. Strange because Kwakiutl customs go so oddly against the grain of...

Art; THE MAGIC REMAINS ; Natural History's Inspired Show of Indian Potlatch The Washington Post (11/15/1993)
...the indigenous Canadians known as the Kwakiutl - were still resisting "inch by inch...in 1883 - today it seems heroic - the Kwakiutl kept reviving the old custom that shimmers...History. "Chiefly Feasts: The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch" opens with a movie, a 1914...

Helen Codere, 91; anthropologist studied Rwanda, Pacific Northwest Helen Codere, 91; anthropologist studied Rwanda, Pacific Northwest The Boston Globe (7/5/2009)
...1950s and 1960s, first among the Kwakiutl societies of the Pacific Northwest...Museum, was her 1966 editing of "Kwakiutl Ethnography," by the late Franz Boas, her mentor whose work among the Kwakiutl she continued. Boas, who died in...

American Indian Dance Theatre. (Joyce Theater, December 14, 1993-January 2, 1994) Dance Magazine (5/1/1994)
...Red Cedar Bark Ceremony (Tseka) from the Kwakiutl people of British Columbia, was banned...performances at the Joyce marked the first time the Kwakiutl ritual dances had been performed by non-Kwakiutl Indians, and, to mark the occasion, Bill...

The Western Cannon: The Books and School of the Ages. Mosaic (Winnipeg) (9/1/1996)
...anthropologist Franz Boas often spoke of a Kwakiutl man who had come to work with him in...felt transferred into the universe of Kwakiutl fairy-tales. (142) These scenes...New York Public Library and Boas's Kwakiutl friend are each seen in terms that might...

Making It Real: The Canonization of English-Canadian Literature. Mosaic (Winnipeg) (9/1/1996)
...anthropologist Franz Boas often spoke of a Kwakiutl man who had come to work with him in...felt transferred into the universe of Kwakiutl fairy-tales. (142) These scenes...New York Public Library and Boas's Kwakiutl friend are each seen in terms that might...

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