Dzunukwa
Also known as: Tsonoqua, Wild Woman of the Woods
Basic account
Giantess of the woods who steals children and owns treasures of copper and power.
Account
Dzunukwa is the wild woman of the woods in Kwakwaka'wakw tradition: enormous, dark, drowsy, with pursed lips and a basket for carrying children. She is also a source of wealth, and both facts matter equally.
Motifs
- Eater of people
- The wild one of the uplands
- The giant as guardian
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What is disputed
The Boas-Hunt corpus is invaluable and also a product of salvage anthropology, collected under assumptions about vanishing cultures that were wrong, and organised according to external analytic categories.
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Sources
- Kwakwaka'wakw oral tradition and hereditary mask traditions
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