Dzunuk’wa is the Kwakwaka’wakw name for the region’s famous Wild Woman of the Woods. She is a giant hairy, bearded, black bodied, wide eyed being. Her echoing cry is “Huu huu huu.” Of all the creatures of the forest that are represented as masks on the Northwest Coast, the wild-woman of the woods is one of the most renowned. She is also known as Copper-woman, and is symbolically associated with we…