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Tsonoqu(o)a [< Kwakiutl] Pacific Coast 
n. See quotes.
- 1941 "Who is that big carved woman?" I repeated. "D'Sonoqua." No white tongue could have fondled the name as he did. "Who is D'Sonoqua?" "She is the wild woman of the woods." "What does she do?" "She steals children." "To eat them?" "No, she carries them to her caves. . . ."
- 1956 Tsonoquoa, the wild woman of the woods, was a Kwakiutl being, who wandered through the woods with a basket in which to put the children she caught; then she would carry them off to kill them and eat them.
- 1964 This great shaggy giantess figure of the Tsonoqua people has many aspects in Kwakiutl carving and painting. Always depicted as huge and dark with lips pursed to utter a cry, she is the figure of many conflicting stories.
- 1941 "Who is that big carved woman?" I repeated. "D'Sonoqua." No white tongue could have fondled the name as he did. "Who is D'Sonoqua?" "She is the wild woman of the woods." "What does she do?" "She steals children." "To eat them?" "No, she carries them to her caves. . . ."