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The storage box of tradition: Kwakiutl art, anthropologists, and museums. .(Book Review) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (6/1/2003)
JACKNIS, IRA. The storage box of tradition: Kwakiutl art, anthropologists, and museums, 1881-1981. xvi...North America. Jacknis focuses on the Kwakwaka'wakw ['Kwakiutl'], whose art is often conflated with that of more northern...

Kwakiutl artist selected (David Neel to be displayed at Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona). Wind Speaker (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...

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 (Boston, MA) (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...

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...

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...

'Dis ain't gimme, Florida': Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God." The Modern Language Review (10/1/2003)
...Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (4) concerned Kwakiutl 'potlatch', a form of gift exchange which...consumption advanced by Thorstein Veblen. The Kwakiutl had a variety of gift-giving ceremonies involving...

Making an Apple-Head Doll. Hopscotch (8/1/1999)
...like an elderly, native woman of the Kwakiutl tribe." The heads in the bag are made...Alaska. "I design my dolls after the Kwakiutl Indians because of all the Northwestern...high leather moccasins and painted Kwakiutl designs on them. Feathers were sewn...

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