The paint is red and black.

The paint is white, black, red, yellow, and blue.

This carving may have been salvaged from a feast dish. The lower surfaces of old dishes are often rotten and riddled by insects as a result of the custom of storing them on the ground under the houses, which, in the years since the abandonment of the traditional native house, have been frame houses raised on short pilings. The head may have been cut from an old dish that had lost its function through the rotting of the bottom. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

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

The paint is black.

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 paint is blue and black.

The paint is blue and red.

Almost all Northwest Coast masks representing human males show a mustache, and often also a small beard on the point of the chin. The characteristic Kwakwaka'wakw use of green paint in the eyesocket is seen here as well as the customary painting of the features. A red formline design is painted on each cheek and merges with the red nostrils. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)