Kithaba Kithaba was a Klatooinian male slave who worked as a skiff guard for the crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure on the planet Tatooine . During the Galactic Civil War , Kithaba was assigned to travel with the prisoners Luke Skywalker , Han Solo and Chewbacca in a Bantha - II cargo skiff to the Great Pit of Carkoon , where they would be executed . At the pit , the prisoners had a brief exchange with Jabba , who was viewing the executions from onboard his sail barge " Khetanna " , before Skywalker attacked Kithaba and his colleagues with a lightsaber that the droid R2 - D2 had provided him with . Kithaba was the first guard to be knocked from the skiff , but managed to avoid the maw of the sarlacc that lived in the pit for some time while it consumed several of his colleagues . Shortly after Jabba himself was killed , the sarlacc wrapped its tongue around Kithaba and swallowed him . Biography . Kithaba was a Klatooinian slave who was owned by the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure during the Galactic Civil War between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire . In 3 ABY , Jabba came into possession of the smuggler Han Solo frozen in carbonite and chose to display him in his palace on the desert planet Tatooine . In 4 ABY , a group of Solo ' s friends mounted an effort to rescue him from the Hutt , with the former smuggler Lando Calrissian infiltrating the palace in disguise , and the two droid s C - 3PO and R2 - D2 entering Jabba ' s services as gifts from the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker . Prince ss Leia Organa then also infiltrated the palace disguised as the bounty hunter Boushh and handed the Wookiee Chewbacca over to Jabba as a prisoner , but after thawing Solo out from his carbonite prison she was captured . Finally Skywalker himself arrived and managed to kill Jabba ' s pet rancor . Outraged by the loss of his pet , Jabba demanded that Skywalker , Solo and Chewbacca be executed at the Great Pit of Carkoon , where they would be fed to a sarlacc that Jabba claimed would digest them alive over one thousand years . Kithaba was one of several of Jabba ' s men who was assigned to accompany the prisoners on a Bantha - II cargo skiff through Tatooine ' s deserts to the pit . The Kadas ' sa ' Nikto Vedain pilot ed the skiff , while Kithaba guarded the prisoners alongside four other guards , including the disguised Calrissian and the Weequay Pagetti Rook . A second skiff carried another group of guards alongside the prisoner skiff , while Jabba and his court traveled on the sail barge " Khetanna " to view the executions . Upon reaching the pit , Skywalker used a mind trick to persuade one of the guards to remove his handcuffs , after which Rook forced Skywalker out onto a gangplank over the sarlacc while Kithaba and the others guarded Solo and Chewbacca . Jabba then had C - 3PO offer the prisoners a chance to beg for mercy , but all three gave him no such pleasure , with Skywalker warning the Hutt that if he did not free his prisoners , he would be killed . This amused Jabba greatly , but unafraid of his captives the Hutt ordered the executions to begin , and as Kithaba watched , Rook stepped forward to force Skywalker off the plank . The Jedi dropped from the skiff , but caught the end of the plank and leapt back up , catching a lightsaber that R2 - D2 had launched to him from the sail barge as he fell . Landing back on the skiff , Skywalker swiftly attacked the guards , and Kithaba was almost immediately knocked over the railings of the skiff to the sand below . He was not immediately devoured , however , and managed to outlive several of his fellow guards including those on the second skiff , and Jabba himself , who was strangled by Organa . Before the fighting was over , the sarlacc managed to curl its long tongue around the Klatooinian and drag him screaming into its waiting maw . Skywalker and his companions then destroyed the " Khetanna " and escaped Tatooine . Personality and traits . Kithaba was a male Klatooinian with green skin . Equipment . While at the Great Pit of Carkoon , Kithaba wore a yellow waistcoat over a white shirt with a pair of red pants . He also wore a red bandana , a bandolier , a belt , and pairs of boot s and glove s . He carried a black spear - like weapon while on the skiff . Behind the scenes . Kithaba was portrayed by an uncredited actor in , which was released in 1983 . During production of the film , the two Klatooinian skiff guards were known as Barada 1 and Barada 2 , in reference to the phrase " Klatoo Barada Nikto " from the film " " . Barada 1 , who was positioned on the second skiff , ended up keeping his name and became Barada , while Barada 2 would eventually be identified as Kithaba in " Jabba ' s Palace Limited " , an expansion for the " Star Wars " Customizable Card Game released in 2004 . The name was canon ized by the " " , which was written by Pablo Hidalgo and Simon Beecroft and released in 2016 . Kithaba ' s costume , along with those of all the non - human skiff guards , was created as a joint effort between the film ' s creature and costume departments . The masks were first sculpted in clay then made into plaster molds that latex could be poured into . Once the head was complete , the costume department had design costumes that could keep the masks on , an added velcro and harnesses to hold them in place . His clothing consisted of a pair of modified red ski pants , which had the zippers covered and a braided tuxedo stripe added to the legs , and a full - sleeved and fitted - cuffed white cotton shirt . Over the shirt the character wore a yellow , padded cap - sleeved waistcoat which snapped to the shirt on the back and at each opening at the front . Costume accessory technician Mick Becker then assembled a bandolier , bandana , and belt to finish off the costume along with a pair of boots and gloves . In the 2016 – 2017 animated television series " " , Kithaba appears in a non - speaking role as one of the Hutt crime lord Graballa ' s henchmen . He appears in several episodes including " Race on Tatooine " , " The Test " , " The Kyber Saber Crystal Chase " , " The Embersteel Blade " , and " Return to the Wheel " .