. Bulletin. Ethnology. |0 0° P Map 2.—Kyuquot sites. Tribal (winter) villages: 1, maxqet; 2, ca'wispa; 3, qwixqa; 4, h5psitas. Local group sites: 5, tacis; 6, a'Lic; 7, ya'q5; 8, qa'oq; 9, qa'opinc; 10, qaqciL; 11, qa'yokw; 12, ca'wis; 13, ya'qats; 14, kutsu'; 15, amai; 16, til; 17, na'mint. Confederacy (summer) site: 18, aqtis. The other groups were created at their respective rivers.^^ Along with their properties the qwowinasath were given the highest rank of the Kyuquot. This rank, manifested in the right to receive first at potlatches, and most of their territorial rights, they transferred
. Bulletin. Ethnology. |0 0° P Map 2.—Kyuquot sites. Tribal (winter) villages: 1, maxqet; 2, ca'wispa; 3, qwixqa; 4, h5psitas. Local group sites: 5, tacis; 6, a'Lic; 7, ya'q5; 8, qa'oq; 9, qa'opinc; 10, qaqciL; 11, qa'yokw; 12, ca'wis; 13, ya'qats; 14, kutsu'; 15, amai; 16, til; 17, na'mint. Confederacy (summer) site: 18, aqtis. The other groups were created at their respective rivers.^^ Along with their properties the qwowinasath were given the highest rank of the Kyuquot. This rank, manifested in the right to receive first at potlatches, and most of their territorial rights, they transferred to the chief of the tacisath as part of a marriage dowry. Later, a suc- cessor of the latter gave this highest ranli, also as part of a dowry, " The Kyuquot maintain, incidentally, that their ancestors were created in human form, whereas their neighbors were animals transformed into people—the Moachat from deer (mo4tc), the Muchalat from wolves, and so on. This they prove by a somewhat obscure etymology of the name of the confederated group, qa'yokwith, from a form of the stem qo'4s meaning "real human ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington : G. P. O.
Size: 1305px × 1915px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectethnolo, bookyear1901
