A tribe of Native Americans living in the Queen Charlotte Sound region on the Pacific coast of North America. They make their living by hunting and fishing for marine mammals and salmon. Their language belongs to the Huacach family and is divided into three dialects. They have totem beliefs. Their basic social unit is a local group based on bilateral descent, and they are divided into classes of nobles, commoners, and slaves, but they lack unilineal kinship groups such as clans. Marriages are generally exogamy, and are practiced in both patrilineal and matrilineal ways. They are famous for practicing potlatches. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
北アメリカの太平洋岸,クイーンシャーロット湾地域に住むアメリカインディアンの一民族。海獣やサケなどの狩猟,漁労を生業とする。言語はワカシュ語族に属し,3つの方言に分れる。トーテム信仰をもつ。社会組織は双系出自に基づく地域集団を基本的単位とし,貴族,平民,奴隷の階層に分れるが,氏族のような単系親族集団を欠く。婚姻は地域外婚を原則とし,夫方居住婚,妻方居住婚とも行われる。ポトラッチを行うので有名である。
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