Caption: Pug Wees mask by Joe Peters Jr.,
Kwakiutl (British Columbia), 1984
(33) Franz Boas,
Kwakiutl Ethnography (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1966), cap.
The Vietnamese believed the orbs were eaten by a toad, while the
Kwakiutl tribe, on Canada's west coast, believe the mouth of heaven consumes the sun or the moon.
The Vietnamese |believed the orbs were eaten by a toad, while the
Kwakiutl tribe on Canada's west coast believe the mouth of heaven consumes the sun or the moon.
En otros casos existia un proceso de sintesis simbolica, tal como en la danza canibal de los
kwakiutl, en la cual los deseos canibales estaban supeditados a un poder que debia integrarse a la personalidad del individuo.
He secured a teaching appointment at the College of Puget Sound, began graduate work in anthropology at the University of Washington, and hung out with the artist and avant-garde filmmaker Sidney Peterson, with whom he planned to make a feature film about the golden era of the
Kwakiutl. In the end, he completed just three short works, two focusing on a small, impoverished community of
Kwakiutl living in British Columbia (Blunden Harbour and Dances of the
Kwakiutl [both 1951]) and the third, from 1952, an experimental portrait of the American painter Mark Tobey, who was then residing in Seattle.
Hence Boas drew the radical conclusion that in reality there are no "alternating [or 'synthetic'] sounds," but only "alternating apperceptions" of one and the same sound (if they exist, they are merely sounds that went through the process of apperception; Boas found evidence to sustain this theory in the languages of the Haida and
Kwakiutl Indians and in Eskimo).
The formation and protection of property rights among the southern
Kwakiutl Indians.
(15.) Franz Boas, The Religion of the
Kwakiutl Indians: Texts (Columbia University Press, 1930), 178.
In 1914, largely in hopes of making money to subsidize additional expeditions, Curtis shot a fiction film about precontact
Kwakiutl characters and situations, In the Land of the War Canoes.
Included in this last grouping are songs from the Micmac, Algonkian, Saulteaux, Cree, Sioux, Blackfoot, Blood, Nootka, Bella Coola, Tlingit,
Kwakiutl, and Inuit nations all performed by First Nations singers.
"We embellished everything--the walls, blankets, storage containers," says the woman whose
Kwakiutl and Tlingit lineage includes celebrated artists Henry, Richard and Tony Hunt.
