Word: kwakiutls
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...anyone who has been under love's spell, these theories seem preposterous, and so they are. Nothing so primal could have been created out of thin air as a mere custom or product. To the contrary, romantic love is a human universal. In 1896 a Kwakiutl Indian in southern Alaska wrote the lament "Fire runs through my body--the pain of loving you," which could be the title of a bad power ballad today. Similar outpourings of passion can be found all over the world from those with broken hearts...
...nearly 60 years after that, Heye bought just about every Indian artifact he could get his hands on--Kwakiutl doorposts, Mayan jade idols, Lenape wampum belts, Nootka whaleboats, plus every kind of headdress, breastplate and beaded skirt. You can see why he was once described as a man who "felt that he couldn't conscientiously leave a reservation until its entire population was practically naked." By the time he died, in 1957, he had amassed about 800,000 items and opened an overburdened private museum in Manhattan...
...broad look at societies from the Kwakiutl Indians in British Columbia to the blacks of Albany, N.Y., Gilder has produced a 306-page ode to the economic and moral benefits of unfettered capitalism. Some Reaganauts expect Wealth and Poverty to become a classic of supply-side economics, the school of thought that believes Government policy should focus more on helping private enterprise boost the output of goods and services...
...Land of the War Canoes" is amazing because Curtis was able to direct members of the Kwakiutl tribe in Vancouver, B.C., to re-enact the story of a quest for a vision and its results in the time before the Indians had been assimilated into white culture. From the anthropological standpoint this film is invaluable. From the cinematic stabdpoint, the framing, lighting, and composition are every bit as classic as the stills of the period which Curtis is more famous for. The film has the added excitement of light and water leaks apparently left from the original footage...
...told that Canadians can't stand American women in slacks, Miss Craven journeyed north by small boat from Vancouver into the Queen Charlotte Straits of British Columbia in search of adventure and material. Her trip ended at the top of King-come Inlet, in a village of the Kwakiutl Indians. Kingcome is a place of icy water, deep, fir-trimmed inlets, returning salmon, foraging killer whales, overwhelming beauty and, for the once proud Kwakiutls, overwhelming sadness. Even the young are not sure they can face going "outside" to school and trying to live like white men. But they...