Helen Codere attempted to correct misconceptions about this group in an article about the "amiable side" of their life.
Helen Codere attempted to correct misconceptions about this group in an article about the "amiable side" of their life. This group displays emus [eh- muss] masks during funerals, and first names children when they are ten months old, in a ceremony where the children's faces are painted with ochre. This group divides the year into two parts--spring and summer, or "bakoos," and winter, or "tsetseka," when members of this group perform the hamatsa, or cannibal dance. This group's society was described as "Dionysian" in Patterns of Culture, which contrasts them with the Zuni and Dobu. Chiefs in this group attain status through ceremonies where they gave away huge amounts of food and gifts. FTP, name this Native American society whose ceremony of the potlatch was described by Franz Boas.
Helen Codere attempted to correct misconceptions about this group in an article about the "amiable side" of their life.
{Kwakiutl} [accept with astonishment {Kwakwaka'wakw}]