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Kwakiutl|ˈkwɑːkjʊt(ə)l|
Also 9 Kwahkewlth, etc.
[Native place-name, Kwá guł.]
a. An Indian people of the north-west coast of N. America; also, a member of this people.
b. Their language. Also attrib. or as adj.
1848Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. London I. 233 (in list) 7. Quagheuil. Inhabiting Broughton's Archipelago. 1874Rep. Indian Branch, Canada Dept. Minister of Interior 1873 33 Quackewelths with sub-tribes 2,000. 1897F. Boas in Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1895 311 (title) Social organisation and secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians. Ibid. 321 Kwakiutl, Salishan, and Chemakum..show certain similarities in form. 1921E. Sapir Lang. iv. 81 Causative duplications..as in Kwakiutl metmat ‘to eat clams’ (radical element met- ‘clam’). 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. xxvi. 470 Thus, Quilleute, Kwakiutl, and Tsimshian all have different articles for common nouns and for names, and distinguish between visibility and invisibility in demonstrative pronouns. 1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory ix. 133 A blue-blood in the caste-ridden Kwakiutl society. 1944[see deviant ppl. a. 1]. 1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organiz. i. 3 The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia compete in the potlach. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions i. i. 23 With the loss of Camilla he returned to the times before he had known her, among the Zuñi and Mojave, the Plains Indians and the Kwakiutl. 1959E. Tunis Indians 136/1 The Kwakiutl and Nootka languages were similar to one another but unlike any other known tongue. 1965W. P. Alston in M. Black Philos. in Amer. 24 What in our culture would be a look of contempt would be a look of affection among the Kwakiutl. 1969Times 22 Sept. 14/3 A Kwakiutl door post from Cape Commerell is sculptured in the form of a gigantic bear—a forest spirit—its lips rounded in a mysterious hooting cry. |