Their most notable ceremony assigns paramount status to the family who can distribute the most resources.
These people believe in a sea monster named Pugwis, as well as in a figure named Bakwas who lives in an invisible house in the woods where the spirits of the drowned live after death. One creature from these people's tradition says "hu hu!" and is known as Dzunukwa, the old woman of the forest. These people use items named "Tlugwe" at religious ceremonies and some members of this tribe belong to a secret society called the Hamatsa. This tribe was used to refute Lewis Henry Morgan because they appear to be moving from a patrilineal society to a matrilineal society. Their most notable ceremony assigns paramount status to the family who can distribute the most resources. For ten points, name this Native American tribe from Vancouver Island and British Columbia, whose practice of potlatch was studied by Franz Boas.
These people believe in a sea monster named Pugwis, as well as in a figure named Bakwas who lives in an invisible house in the woods where the spirits of the drowned live after death.
{Kwakiutl} [accept: {Kwakwakawakw}]