1. Chapter 4-By the Shinning Sea
Lesson 2 - Of Art and Wood
Focus Question: How was wood important to
the Kwakiutl.
KEY TERMS:
Totem Pole - wooden pole decorated with figures.
Ceremony - an act that is performed in honor of an important
event.

2. Kwakiutl
Wood Carving
Objects they carved Use in Ceremonies
canoes carved masks totem-pole
totem
raisings
poles and rattles

3. Chapter 4-By the Shinning Sea
Lesson 2 - Of Art and Wood
Review Questions:
1. How was wood important to the Kwakiutl?

4. Chapter 4-By the Shinning Sea
Lesson 2 - Of Art and Wood
Review Questions:
2. How would Kwakiutl life have been different
if these people had lived in a desert?

5. Chapter 4-By the Shinning Sea
Lesson 2 - Of Art and Wood
Review Questions:
3. How did the Kwakiutl's ideas about nature
affect their art and ceremonies?

6. Chapter 4-By the Shinning Sea
Lesson 2 - Of Art and Wood
Blue Questions:
How did the Kwakiutl use wood in every
day life?
Wood was used by the Kwakiutl to make canoes and
totem poles.
How did the Kwakiutl use wood in
their cermonies?
The masks, puppets, rattles, and totem poles used in
Kwakiutl ceremonies were made from wood.

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Lesson 2 - Of Art and Wood R
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8. Chapter 4-By the Shinning Sea
Lesson 2 - Of Art and Wood
Exploring Concepts:
Kwaikutl Chart
Where What was used? How was it used?
houses, canoes,
Forest wood or cedar dishes, toys and
clothing.
River or ocean fish or salmon food

9. Chapter 4-By the Shinning Sea
Lesson 2 - Of Art and Wood
Exploring Concepts:
Supporting Details...
Statement Supporting Detail #1 Supporting Detail #2
The Kwakiutl did
not waste fish.
The Kwakiutl took When they caught The Kwakiutl were
only what they more than they could careful not to pull
needed from nature. eat, they dried the too much bark from
extra fish and saved a cedar tree.
them for winter
food.
The Kwakiutl made The Kwakiutl The Kwakiutl carved
beautiful things. woodcarvers made and painted masks,
beautiful totem poles rattles, and puppets
and canoes. to use in ceremonies.