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adze animal bark Basket basketry beam believed Bella Coola body bone burial Cannibal Society canoes carved cedar Cedarbark chief Chilkat Blankets Chilkat River clams clan copper dancing Decoration Designs on Chilkat diagonal dishes distributed dorsal fin eagle eulachon eulachon oil father feast feet fiber fire fish front groups Haida harpoon head hemlock honors hook horizontal Indians inherited killer-whales Kwakiutl marriage masks mats mountain goat Museum myths names Nass River Nootka Nootka Sound North Pacific northern tribes Northwest Coast novice Pacific Coast Painting planks posts potlatch Queen Charlotte Islands rank Raven religious representing River Salish salmon seal secured sept shaman side Skidegate skin slaves social soul southern split Spruce Root stick stone Stone-body supernatural tion Tlingit totem poles tree Tsimshian usually Vancouver Island village warp strands wealth weaving weft whale winter ceremony women wood wooden