Ladle with Skull. Skull imagery is associated with the Tánis ceremony practiced by the Heiltsuk & Kwakwawa’wakw people. Young males are initiated into the community during a ritual where they are symbolically transformed from cannibals, a state equated with death, into members of society [1536×1223]

Ladle with Skull. Skull imagery is associated with the Tánis ceremony practiced by the Heiltsuk & Kwakwawa’wakw people. Young males are initiated into the community during a ritual where they are symbolically transformed from cannibals, a state equated with death, into members of society [1536×1223]

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