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Model drying rack with three parts: two wooden sticks with short metal spikes protruding from the bottom end, attached to each other near the top with sinew strung through holes bored through the centre of each stick (a); wooden stick with a short metal spike protruding from one end (b); short, flat, slightly convex piece of wood that tapers towards either end (c).
The paint is black.
The cord is commercial.
Among the Kwakwaka'wakw the use of the clapper is reserved to the Mitla dancer, one of the performers in the Tseyka series. In the dance it is shaken rapidly and produces a staccato clattering sound. The whole instrument is carved and painted to represent the killer whale, with a thin upright dorsal fin and pectoral fins. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972)
The paint is white, red, green, and black. The cloth is cotton.