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Visual depiction of Baxbaxwalanuksiwe

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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

Organization
Native American Spiritual Traditions
Time period
ancient – present
Location
North & South America

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.