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Vol. II · Polytheism
Sisiutl
Kwakwaka'wakw double-headed serpent
a massive two-headed sea serpent with a human face in the middle, its gaze capable of turning warriors to stone
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.