The paint is red, blue, gray, and black.

The paint is blue, black, and red.

The wood is cedar. The paint is red, black, and white.

The renowned Kwakwaka'wakw artist Mungo Martin identified this transformation mask as his own work. It was made for a chief named Lagius, probably around 1920. The style of carving and painting are recognizable as that of Mungo Martin or his stepfather and mentor Charley James. Although the mask is called Crane in the museum records, the gray color and the hunched attitude when folded are reminiscent of the great blue heron, a bird common to the Kwakwaka'wakw country and often miscalled crane in English. (Holm, Spirit and Ancestor, 1987)

This dish is carved in the form of a reclining human figure, knees drawn close to the body, head extending outward at the opposite end, and hands grasping the edge of the bowl, which encompasses the whole torso. The carving of the disk-shaped head is highly stylized in the Kwakwaka'wakw manner and is painted black, yellow, green, and white. A carved rim resembling rope surrounds the face. It probably represents the twisted red cedar bark that has such a prominent role in the Tseyka ritual. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

The paint is white, red, and black.

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

After the disappearance of the excited headdress dancer and the sounding of the Tlasula horns announcing his imminent appearance, the attendants usher in a dancer, or group of dancers, whose function it is to display the inherited privilege toward which the entire Tlasula dance is focused. Some dances, such as the Gyidakhanis, feature groups of dancers and are re-enactments of mythical incidents or dances acquired from supernatural contact by an ancestor. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)

The personified sun is usually shown in Kwakwaka'wakw art as a human figure with a hooked beak-like nose and a corona of decorated rays surrounding the face. This sun mask in the Burke collection was done by Jack James, a Kwakwaka'wakw carver from Alert Bay.

The paint is green, black, and red.