kata-ka-gun

Updated: June 1, 2025

There are reception dances Skaga and Hi-ate house-building dances Skadul, the Kata-ka-gun dance when the house is completed, and the Skarut dance, preceding a distribution of property and also on occasions of tattooing and death. The latter is performed by a single man, naked with the exception of a breech-cloth, wearing a hideous mask on his head.

Newton H. (Newton Henry) Chittenden - Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia