Here is a model of a sacred religious ceremony:
Here are some more pictures from the North Pacific natives:
According to wikipedia:
The term Kwakiutl for the Kwakwaka'wakw, popularized by anthropologist Franz Boas, was widely used into the 1980s. It comes from one of the Kwakwaka'wakw tribes, the Kwagu'ł, at Fort Rupert, with whom Franz Boas did most of his anthropological work and whose Indian Act band government is the Kwakiutl First Nation.
The museum also had some displays of the Inuit people:
The Inuit live in the Arctic regions of America, Canada, Greenland, and Russia.
by Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com)
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%27wakw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit
Hi There, Rita! Great post. Love the Kwak exhibit. Thought you might be interested to know that the MPM also has a digital database for its entire Kwakiutl (Kwakwaka'wakw) mask collection. Here's the link: www.mpm.edu/collections/artifacts/anthropology/kwakiutl/
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