Red-dyed cedar bark is distributed at the start of the Tseyka dances and is the symbol of that important ceremony. Cedar bark head rings are worn by the participants. In the above poster, notice the Kwakwaka'wakw women wearing cedar bark head rings and button blankets.

The echo is conceived as a human-like being with the ability to imitate the sound or voice of any creature. In the mask this is represented by mouths of many kinds which can be fitted to the mouth of the mask itself. There are four mouths with this echo mask: bear, raven, frog, and sea anemone. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

The wool cloth is brown and blue.

The stories of seafarers are often peopled by monsters of the deep: bringers of bad weather, capsizers, devourers of men. The Yagim is all of those. Described as a destroyer of whole tribes, a shark-like monster who lurks behind canoes, or the source of storms, his name literally means badness. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

The paint is black and red.

The paint is black.

2. TWINED SPRUCE ROOT HAT Haida-style weaving; Kwakwaka'wakw-style painting A standard design on painted hats is an abstract animal with a snout on the brim, eyes on the crown, and a tail opposite the snout. Fins or wings are located on the brim between the snout and tail.

The paint is black, red, and white.