North American West Coast Native Displays at Milwaukee Public Museum

Again, I would like to share with you some of the pictures I took at MPM.  They did some great displays of artifacts from North America.  Here are some from the West Coast and the Kwakiutl people:

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/Kwakiutl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwakwaka%27wakw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit



The Inuit, Throat Singing

The Inuit are a people that reside in the Artic regions of America, Greenland, and Canada.  They have adapted to the hardships of living in cold climiate.  They have their own set of gods/goddesses and stories of giants and little people.  It is likely that the Vikings encountered the Inuit people when they came to Greenland.  The Inuit tell stories of raiders from other tribes as well as from the giants.   The little people were not able to compete with the surrounding Inuit and Giants.

One very interesting part of their culture is throat singing. Here are some youtube videos with examples:

 

By Rita Jean Moran (www.thelibrarykids.com)

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit