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Cannibalism

TRENDS ON THE NWC
Approximated trends in Population, the Potlatch, Copper Production, Slaves and Language Survival, and changes in the Hamatsa. Speculative and suggestive only.

 

 

 

1910 photograph of mummy curing in an open shed with the Hamatsa initiate, here portrayed by George Hunt.


George Hunt

Click here to download A Cannibal in the Archive in which the archive left behind by Curtis and the role of George Hunt are discussed in detail.

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1910 photograph of a hungry Hamatsa dancer.

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1914 photograph of Kwakiutl Kominaka Dancer.

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Curtis photograph of Kwakiutl Kominaka Dancer.

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