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THIS volume consists of Kwakiutl texts with translations for which the material was obtained from a half-blood Indian of Fort Rupert, British Columbia, who speaks Kwakiutl as his native language and has been trained in phonetic writing by Prof. Boas himself. It is a continuation of Vol. 35 of the annual report of the American Bureau of Ethnology. The greater part of the texts deal with the social organisation of the people, and they have this advantage for the student, that they deal with concrete examples, described in minute detail, of such social elements as inheritance and succession, naming, marriage, and the like.
Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl.
By Franz Boas. (Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology, Vol. 3.) Pp. vi + 357. (New York: Columbia University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1925.) 21s. net.
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Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl . Nature 117, 619 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/117619a0
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