 These included wooden whistles, a bear mask, bird masks, costumes, and a Hamatsa pole, all used in later actual rituals.Variations of the myth abound within the Kwakwaka'wakw culture, but this man-eating giant was aided by an old hag, Qominoqa (possibly Dzunukwa), who gathered bodies for him to consume.In practice the Hamatsa initiate, almost always a young man (although age is irrelevant), is abducted by members of the Hamatsa society and kept in the forest in a secret location where he is instructed in the mysteries of the society.