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Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fig. 241.—Stone club usedfor killing slaves. NW, coastof America. Fig. 242.—Stone axe used principally forkilling slaves. NW. coast of America.(Captain Cook.) man and the rest of the animals. All the tribes are extra-ordinarily rich in legends, in many of Avhieh animals play leadingparts ; in the north the raven, in the south the mink, are theprincipal heroes of such tales. The Kwakiutl believe in trans-migration. Sun-worship is strongly marked in the south, buteverywhere the heavenly powers are regarded with awe andreverence. Communication is held with sj^irits by certain pro-fessional shamans, besides those who are initiated at the winter PLATE XV.
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.^Mask of Nulmal, one of the loading characters in the winter ceremonials. Kwakiutl, NW. coast of America. Sj-ace p. 2C2 NORTH AMERICA 263 ceremonies. These men profess to cure diseases by incantationsand the administration of certain herbs. Disease is usuallyattributed to the machinations of some enemy, the temporaryabsence of the soul, or possession by an evil spirit: in the firstcase the shaman often pretends to extract the evil in the shape ofa crystal, stone or other small object.

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