Definitions for Kwakiutl

Kwakiutl Kwa·ki·u·tl

Spelling: [kwah-kee-oot-l]
IPA: /ˌkwɑ kiˈut l/

Kwakiutl is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in Kwakiutl (aikkltuw).

Definitions for Kwakiutl

noun

  1. a member of a North American Indian people of Vancouver Island and the adjacent British Columbian coast.
  2. the language of the Kwakiutl, a Wakashan language.

Examples for Kwakiutl

These are the Kwakiutl Indians, who did not at first respond to the advances of civilization so readily as most northern tribes.

Dr. Boas believed that the Kwakiutl were passing from maternal to paternal descent.

Even among the Kwakiutl, in their transitional state, the totem mark now is "in many cases a crest."

South of these are the Kwakiutl, with descent wavering in a curious fashion between the male and female systems.

The main arguments for original paternal descent among the Kwakiutl are three in number.

The form taken by the maternal inheritance of rank, privileges, etc., among the Kwakiutl points in the same direction.

I now come to give my own opinion as to the ways in which Kwakiutl totemism may have attained its existing peculiarities.

Further south than the Tsimshian dwell the Kwakiutl, of whom the most southerly are called "the Kwakiutl proper."

The northern Kwakiutl are divided, says Dr. Boas, into "septs" and "clans."

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