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Vol. II · Polytheism
Baxbaxwalanuksiwe
Kwakiutl man-eating spirit
the great cannibal at the north end of the world with raven heads on his body, his dancing feast the origin of the hamatsa ceremony
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.