Quileute
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Civilizations, Cultures
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American Indian History
- Geographical Location: Washington
The Quileute, a maritime people, dwelled in permanent split-cedar-roofed longhouses that accommodated several extended families or even a lineage. They were dependent primarily upon fishing, which was reflected in their ceremonies, settlement patterns, technology, and mythology. Quileute society was internally stratified with hereditary chiefs, commoners, and slaves. Status was gained through oratory, warfare, birth, and accumulation and redistribution of traditional forms of wealth (usually in the forms of copper, slaves, obsidian blades, pileated red woodpecker scalp capes, and...
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