DCHP-3

Hamatsa Society

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a secret society of the Kwakiutl Indians of the Pacific coast which indulged in the eating of human flesh.

Quotations

1956
. . . one of the young initiates of the Cannibal Society might be heard approaching . . . running up to people and pretending to bite, or actually biting, pieces out of their arms. Many men bore scars showing where one of the Hamatsa (Cannibal) Society members had bitten him.