A Nakoaktok Chief's Daughter
When the head chief of the tribe holds a potlatch
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Kwakiutl, Northwest Coast
Photograph by Edward S. Curtis
Copyright 1914
(a ceremonial 'giving-away" of property to all the people),
his oldest daughter is enthroned, symbolically supported
on the heads of her slaves.
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