The paint is white, red, and black.

The paint is black, green, red, and white.

After the disappearance of the excited headdress dancer and the sounding of the Tlasula horns announcing his imminent appearance, the attendants usher in a dancer, or group of dancers, whose function it is to display the inherited privilege toward which the entire Tlasula dance is focused. Some dances, such as the Gyidakhanis, feature groups of dancers and are re-enactments of mythical incidents or dances acquired from supernatural contact by an ancestor. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

The personified sun is usually shown in Kwakwaka'wakw art as a human figure with a hooked beak-like nose and a corona of decorated rays surrounding the face. This sun mask in the Burke collection was done by Jack James, a Kwakwaka'wakw carver from Alert Bay.

The paint is green, black, and red.