Singers who sit at the back of the house in front of a painted screen use wooden batons such as these to beat on a plank on time with their songs. The baton (in front), which has a thunderbird design, may have been carved by Willie Seaweed.

Short wooden baton with an octopus head at one end and its tentacles wrapped around the shaft. The handle is slightly flared and undecorated. The ?mouth of the octopus is at the end of the baton, its head and eye has been split in two between itslegs. The legs are incised with circles and dots, characteristic of the octopus' s suckers.; Good

A truncheon shaped baton of wood with a rounded bottom end and a grooved top section.; Good

Drum baton or beater. Brown wood cylindrical baton that tapers downward to an outward flaring handle end. Carved with a Thunderbird design. Has ovoid in ovoid eyes with an upward and outward curling horn-like protrusion at the top of either side. The downward pointing beak has a circle in the middle. At the top of the wings, there is an ovoid while both the inner and the outer feathers have a u form within a larger u form that has a horizontal rectangle within (the inner wing has a straight end while the outer wing has a pointed tip. The claws, below the wings, have an ovoid from which an inward curving tip emanates with a curving shape to the outer side.

Drum baton or beater. Brown wood cylindrical baton that tapers downward to an outward flaring handle end. Carved with an expansive design. Has tapering oval eyes in an ovoid. In between the eyes, there is a u form and a split u with an elongated u form above that has a pair of u forms, a u form, a circle, and a split u within. Below, there is a downward pointing triangle. At either side, there is an ovoid at the top with a split u, an ovoid and another split u at the tip. These are in turn surrounded by a v-shape that has a pair of ovoids at the central bottom. The back has a vertical row of three split u's.

Drum baton or beater. Brown wood cylindrical baton that tapers downward to an outward flaring handle end. Carved with a fish design. Has red eyes and an open red mouth with teeth. The dorsal fin is a lance-olate leaf-shape with an inverted split u at the tip. Has side fins. The upward turned tail has a face with diagonal lines along the upper portion at each end with a dot at the tip.

Drum baton or beater. Light brown wood cylindrical baton that tapers downward to an outward flaring handle end. Carved with a painted raven design. Has black oval in tapering oval eyes surrounded by an orange area and bordered by blue with a pair of inverted red split u's within a red outlined blue u form above at either top side. The blue beak is a long downward pointing triangle. Along the top, the wings have a blue ovoid in ovoid with a sidesways split u at the tip while the blue outlined inner feather has a pair of split red u's and a pair of red u forms and the blue outlined outer feather has a pair of blue split u's and a larger blue split u. The tail has a central blue ovoid in ovoid with four feathers that have an inverted red split u within a blue u form. Initials " H.G." on the handle below the painted design.

Brown, wooden handle topped by a large, elliptical-shaped face with a pointed head and chin. Carved from a single piece of wood, the face is much larger than the width of the handle and gives the impression of being mounted upon a pole. Face is mask-like, painted with faded white, black and red paint, has round black eyes and an open mouth bridged by wood running from the nose to the chin. Entire object is permanently attached by a screw to a black metal stand with a square base. Initials "SP" are inscribed on the reverse in white.