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Kwakwaka’wakw music is the ancient art of the Indigenous or Aboriginal Kwakwaka’wakw peoples.. The music is an ancient art form stretching back thousands of years. The music is used primarily for ceremony and ritual and is based around percussive instrumentation especially log box and hide drums as well as rattles and whistles. The four-day Klasila festival is an important cultural display of song and dance; it occurs just before the advent of the tsetseka or winter.