Spirit of the Ancestors-The dancer cocks the Kolus head to one side, slowly sweeping its piercing eye across the house, then tilts and reverses his swing as the song describes the Kolus, calling it Screecher Mask. - Bill Holm

The paint is dark green, light green, and red.

These shield-shaped objects made of commercial copper represent monetary wealth. As coppers are bought and sold by chiefs, their value increases, sometimes to the equivalent of thousands of dollars. They are displayed on ceremonial occasions, and exchanged at noble marriages. Sometimes during quarrels, pieces were cut from them and publicly given to the offender. That person was then obliged in turn to break a copper to protect his own name. The most valuable coppers have been cut and patched many times.

Round rattles similiar to nothern shamans' rattles are shaken by the attendents of the Hamatsa dancers to help tame them of their wildness. Raven rattles are chiefs' rattles used from Vancouver Island to Southeast Alaska. Headdress dancers use them in the Tlasula.

The dye is red. The paint is red, green, gold, white, and black. The fur is rabbit.

The rivet is copper ore.

The copper theme is repeated in this ceremonial rattle in the shape of that esteemed object. The face has been shaped by pounding into a rounded bulge, and a similarly rounded piece of copper has been soldered to the back, forming a cavity that holds a number of small stones, or perhaps lead shot. The characteristic T-shaped ridge appears on the lower section. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)