`at:Sun Mask-A very rare maskHaida: A hawk-like face surrounded by 5 rays painted red, blue, yellow, black and white. (NOTE: Swan provided incorrect provenience of origin-RKW)

Spectacular transformation masks, called t!ahlt!ahlumhl! (folding-out mask), are used during the Tlasula. When two panels open out from the center to reveal a human face with bear's ears, the grizzly bear is dramatically transformed.

Feast spoons were often made in sets, matched in size and with similar decorations. The three spoons in the collection of the Burke Museum are probably part of a much larger set. Lieutenant George Emmons collected them at Wrangell. The creature on this spoon was identified by Emmons as a frog. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)