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Which Pacific-coast First Nation's spiritual tradition centres on the Hamatsa, a dramatic winter ceremony involving masked dancers representing cannibal spirits?

The Hamatsa ceremony of the Kwakwaka'wakw is a dramatic winter ritual where initiates are symbolically possessed by a cannibal spirit and must be tamed back into human society through dance and song.

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