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THE KWAKJUTL INDIANS.—The report of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, at Harvard University, for 1920–1921, published in 1922, records the results of many expeditions. The one of chief interest to British readers is a visit to the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, made by Dr. C. F. Newcombe, to look for the few remaining house-posts or other large carvings of those Indians. From Kalukwis village on Tournour Id. he secured two fine house-posts, about sixteen feet high and nearly four feet across. Each is carved with figures representing the speaker of the chief and the ancestral grizzly bear who was friendly to the founder of the family, giving him rights to certain dances, and teaching him the use of the appropriate masks. These carvings are now on exhibition, and a house group of Kwakiutls has been added to the fourteen previously illustrating the home life of the American Indians. A new Hall of North American Ethnology was opened to the public in September 1920, but it needs more cases before the collections can be finally arranged. With the reduction in the price of plate glass, it is hoped that these cases will soon be added.
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Research Items. Nature 110, 190–191 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110190a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/110190a0