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Exhibitions  

Chiefly Feasts - The Enduring Kwakiutl Potlatch
From:  December 1, 1994
To:      May 7, 1995

(Borrowed from the American Museum of Natural History)


This exhibition celebrates the Kwakwaka'wakw potlatch tradition, which has maintained its vitality despite outside pressures. This exhibition features a vast display of extraordinary nineteenth and twentieth-century masks and other ceremonial creations, as well as photographs of nineteenth-century potlatch ceremonies.

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Created: September 27, 2001
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