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This Kwa' Laba Kuth, or Wildman, mask represents one of the ghost-like forest spirits that appear during the Makah Klookwalli ceremonial. Similar ghost-like spirits are represented in mask form among neighboring tribes: Pukmis and Ahlmako of the Nuu-chah-nulth, the Bukwus of the Kwakiutl. Their ghostly qualities are sometimes represented by skull-like heads with hooked noses and bared teeth in grimacing mouths.
Whistles and horns were used by the Tsimshian in both the Nakhnokh performances and the initiation ceremonies of the secret societies acquired from the Northern Wakashan tribes. George Emmons, who collected the horn from the Nishga, did not specify its use. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)
The paint is black.
This set of four masks represents the supernatural brothers who were created at the beginning of time by the supreme spirit, Ahlkuntam, and given the task of ordering the world. These and other supernatural beings were honored in the Nuxalk Winter Ceremonial, called Kusiut, comparable to the Kwakwaka'wakw Tseyka. The oldest and most powerful brother was named Yula'timot (He Who Completes Any Task with a Single Smoothing motion) and is credited with creating fire. The second brother brought rain and was called MaLapa'litsek (He Who Completes Any Task with a Single Stroke of His Adze). The creator of trees, MaL'ape'exoek (He Who Completes Any Task with Two Strokes of His Adze) was the third brother. IL'iLu'lak (He Who Completes Any Task in a Single Day), the fourth brother, created the world.
The paint is red and green.
The paint is black, red, light blue, and green.