Episode 97: Baxbakualanuxsiwae (Featuring Banned Camp)

Boy this one was a researching doozy! On this episode of Iron, Silver and Salt, we are joined by our friends from the podcast Banned Camp to talk about the mysterious cannibal at the edge of the world: The Baxbakualanusxsiwae! Chris resets the "days without sacrificing an intern" counter. Jennifer food shops at petsmart! Dan keeps it simple: go to the movies! And your brave monster hunters tell you how you can dance your way out of an encounter with Baxbakualanusxsiwae. Sources: McDowell, Jim, 1934- Hamatsa : : the enigma of cannibalism on the Pacific Northwest Coast / Jim McDowell. Vancouver : Ronsdale Press, 1997. Boas, Franz, 1858-1942. The social organization and the secret societies of the Kwakiutl Indians. New York, Johnson Reprint Corp. [1970] Goodfellow, Anne. Talking in context : language and identity in Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw society / Anne Marie Goodfellow. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005. Chiefly feasts : the enduring Kwakiutl potlatch / edited by Aldona Jonaitis ; with essays by Douglas Cole ... [et al.] ; contributions by Stacy Alyn Marcus, Judith Ostrowitz ; and special editorial help by Peter L. Macnair ; color photographs by Lynton Gardiner. Seattle : University of Washington Press ; New York : American Museum of Natural History, c1991. Hawthorn, Audrey. Kwakiutl art / Audrey Hawthorn. Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1979. Boas, Franz, 1858-1942. Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas. English Indian myths & legends from the North Pacific Coast of America : a translation of Franz Boas' 1895 edition of Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas / edited and annotated by Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy ; translated by Dietrich Bertz ; with a foreword by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Vancouver : Talon Books, 2002. Yasuda, Anita, author. Traditional stories of the Northwest Coast nations / by Anita Yasuda ; content consultant, Roger Fernandes. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing, [2018] "Gallows Hill" by Josh Woodward. (https://www.joshwoodward.com/song/GallowsHill) License: CC BY https://www.jamendo.com/track/78314/gallows-hill