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The yarn is wool and red.
The paint is red, black, blue, and white.
Tall, glossy black dorsal fin, hair streaming from the trailing edge, is the mark of the killer whale: the most imposing natural animal of the Tlingit world and a crest of the Wolf phratry. Here the orca is combined with the wolf itself in a powerful crest headdress, collected by George Emmons from the Stikine Tlingit. Emmons did not identify the clan that owned the headdress, but described it as of "totemic significance," worn by the chief--to whose care it was entrusted--only upon special occasions when the whole family was present. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
The tall fin, a special mark of the killer whale, is often pierced with a round hole, or marked with a circle. One Tlingit story explains that the man who first carved killer whales of yellow cedar (he tried unsuccessfully to make them of cottonwood bark, alder, hemlock, and red cedar) carved holes in their dorsal fins and, using them as handholds, was towed away from an island on which his brothers-in-law had marooned him. Later he sent his spirit whales to revenge him by smashing their canoe. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
The wood is paint.