The paint is red, black, and white.

Dzoonokwa, a Sasquatch-like creature, belongs to a family of humanoid giants who are both beneficial and menacing to humans. She is known to steal children, but can also bestow power and wealth. A chief who wears this mask when he speaks demonstrates that his ancestors gained this power. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

The paint is black and red.

Dzoonokwa, one of the best known mythical personages in Kwakwaka'wakw art, is usually represented as a female. She is a giantess of great strength and awesome appearance. Her characteristic features are large size, dark hairy body, hanging breasts, and a great head with heavy brow, arched nose, sunken cheeks and eyesockets, and lips pushed foward and rounded to produce her fearsome cry, "Oooooh!" (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

Heavy black wood gable mask with only the lower half of the back carved out. Tufts of curly black hair and shells are inset into mounds of black clay(?) at the top of the head, eyebrows, eyes, mouth and sides of the nose. The nose is pierced with a long stick and each ear has twisted brown grass rope earrings knotted into two holes.

Rectangular brown birch bark basket with lid. Bark is cut, bent and laced together with reddish coloured root at the four corners. Twig splints around the rim of both lid and basket that are overcast with thin strips of root? and the lid also has interwoven long strands of black hair. Geometric and linear patterns of cross hatching and inverted triangles are scratched onto the exterior sides of the basket and top of the lid, revealing a lighter shade of bark. Lid has an arched handle-like strip of bark attached to the top centre with two X stitches of dark root.

Colourful headdress with a turtle on mulberry fibre, wrapped around the front of a corrugated cardboard and plastic head ring covered with white fabric and decorative elements. A long blonde hair wig and pink feathers are stitched on to a frame at the back. Around and above the nose of the turtle are bands of green and red metal beads and brown shells, from the top of which project five black fabric-covered wood sticks with white shells and ivory coloured polished coconut shell rings adhered to their lengths.

Portrait mask. Red, blue and black facial features and tattoo are painted onto the natural wood background. Abalone shell discs and a thin band are glued to the eyes and mouth and a thick coil of red bark rope is attached along the chin line. Long twists of dark hair and tied bundles of painted red bark strips with blue ends drape across the forehead and down the sides.

A headdress with a beadwork head band trimmed cap made of skin and beige fabric from which extends a crown of long brown eagle feathers. Each feather has an attached diamond-shaped piece of burgundy velvet fabric with white down feathers at the tip and the bottom ends are wrapped with green and red felt-like fabric and attached to the cap above the beadwork with skin loops. The head band has a design of mountains and crosses in red, green, orange, blue and pink on a white background, a large metal pin at the centre, and strands of metal, plastic and seed beads draped around it. From each side of the cap hang feathers, red ribbons with plastic hoops, bundles of dark hair, and strands of brass beads.