Three Kwakuitl Ceremonial Skulls
Only people of chiefly lineage were elligible to take the role of a Hamatsa, or cannibal dancer. To indicate his hunger for human flesh his costume had carved wooden skulls attached.The depicted skull on the wooden arc would have been carried by Kinqalalala, his female attendant. With this she would subdue Hamatsa.                                        

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