Tsilwalagame Kwakwaka Wakw

nature-spirit · Canada · North America

Tsilwalagame is the child of Dzunukwa, the Cannibal Woman of Kwakwaka'wakw tradition, a boy found and adopted by a human ancestor. Though half of the wild cannibal people, he was raised among humans and became the ancestor of the 'Namgis; Mungo Martin's 1953 Thunderbird Park pole shows Dzunukwa holding him.

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