Kwakiutl carvers are only allowed to carve their own family crests into totem poles. It limits every artist to what their family owns. Even on the Sunnylands totem pole, there are Hunt family crests.

As a youngster, Tsungani raced motorcycles on the country roads of Cowlitz County. Now, at 65, he dons the masks of the Kwakiutl tribe of British Columbia instead and gets his excitement by ...

Packed with illustrations and descriptions of the habits, rituals and songs of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, Franz Boas’s 1897 book “The Social Organization and the Secret ...

This volume forms an important supplement to that which preceded it, giving a collection of bardic chronicles and songs illustrating the beliefs and customs of the Kwakiutl, a fishing-tribe on the ...

Executive producer Marsha Bemko shares her tips for getting the most out of ANTIQUES ROADSHOW. Value can change: The value of an item is dependent upon many things, including the condition of the ...

THIS volume consists of Kwakiutl texts with translations for which the material was obtained from a half-blood Indian of Fort Rupert, British Columbia, who speaks Kwakiutl as his native language ...

Part of the larger group of Kwakwaka’wakw, "speakers of the Kwak'wala language," the Kwakiutl Band are the first inhabitants of Fort Rupert (Tsax̱is) on the northeastern shores of Vancouver Island ...