The mask was said to have been made nearly one hundred years ago by a carver named Hayogwis for chief Gwalis Gyekhendzi. This chief was the grandfather of Willie Seaweed, whose work is well represented in the Burke Museum collection. (Holm, Crooked Beak of Heaven, 1972).

The dye is red. The paint is red, green, gold, white, and black. The fur is rabbit.

The paint is white, black, and red.

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

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

The paint is black and red.

The paint is red, black, and white.

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)