The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians
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Public domain (U.S. federal government work, 1897). Report of the U.S. National Museum for 1895 (Smithsonian Institution); documents the Kwakiutl winter ceremonial, including the Hamatsa society's initiation in which the novice is ritually possessed by the cannibal spirit Baxbakualanuxsiwae and must be ceremonially "tamed."
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