Kwakiutln.
/ˈkwɑːkjʊt(ə)l/ a. An Indian people of the north-west coast of North America; also, a member of this people.
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the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of British Columbia, Alberta, and Alaska > [noun]
Slave1789
beaver1801
Carrier1801
Musqueam1808
Nootkian1811
Okanagan1814
Takulli1820
Dogrib1823
Nanaimo1827
Loucheux1828
Bella Coola1834
Nootkan1835
Chilkat1836
Nootka1846
Squamish1846
Siwash1847
Kwakiutl1848
Nitinaht1848
Sitkan1848
Sitka1853
Makah1855
Stick Indian1857
Songhees1860
Stoney1861
Mattole1864
Tlingit1865
Nisga'a1874
Hoochinoo1878
Nimpkish1885
Tsimshian1888
Gitksan1889
Nuxalk1910
Snohomish1910
Nuu-chah-nulth1983
Ditidaht1988
'Namgis1994
1848 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. 1 233 (in list) 7. Quagheuil. Inhabiting Broughton's Archipelago.
1874 Rep. Indian Branch, Canada Dept. Minister of Interior 1873 33 Quackewelths with sub-tribes 2,000.
1944 G. Bateson in J. McV. Hunt Personality & Behavior Disorders II. xxiii. 722 A character structure which is normal among us may be deviant among the Kwakiutl.
1955 W. 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.
1965 W. 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.
b. Their language.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Mosan > Wakashan > specific
Nootkac1789
Makah1870
Kwakiutl1897
Nuu-chah-nulth1990
1897 Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1895 321 Kwakiutl, Salishan, and Chemakum..show certain similarities in form.
1921 E. Sapir Lang. iv. 81 Causative duplications..as in Kwakiutl metmat ‘to eat clams’ (radical element met- ‘clam’).
1933 L. 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.
Compounds
General attributive.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [adjective] > of Mosan languages > Wakashan > specific
Nootka1788
Nootkian1816
Nootkan1890
Kwakiutl1897
1897 F. Boas in Rep. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1895 311 (title) Social organisation and secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians.
1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory ix. 133 A blue-blood in the caste-ridden Kwakiutl society.
1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization i. 3 The Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia compete in the potlach.
1959 E. Tunis Indians 136/1 The Kwakiutl and Nootka languages were similar to one another but unlike any other known tongue.
1969 Times 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.
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