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)

Clappers very finely carved in the form of a killerwhale. The killerwhale is expertly executed with U- forms and deep inlaid (haliotis) ovoids. Its mouth is painted red, and there are fins close to the sides of the body, the dorsal fin has a small humanoid face where the blow hole would be positioned, suggesting transformation. The tail is also the face of a bear with the bifurcating tail being its ears. The clappers are painted red, blue-green and black. The handle narrows, making the flexible join necessary to produce sound, the two pieces are pinned with a copper nail. The killerwhale section of the clappers are hollow.; Good

A small set of clappers painted red, green and black in the form of a ?bear cub or ?dog. The head of the creature is finely carved in classic northern style. The clappers are split in half and have been hollowed out, probably to allow the sound to reverberate in these chambers. An extremely narrow, and presumably once flexible, section extends towards the handle. The narrow section has been broken and pinned. The handle is bound together with twine. Metlahkatlah has been written in ink below the handle.; Good

Brown wood clapper in the form of a killer whale. Black lower jaw is nailed together with a strip of hide skin. A white string through a metal hook at either inner jaw connects the two together inside the mouth. Black dorsal fin has a plain ovoid and is inserted into the back. Has oval black eyes in a tapering oval surrounded by a green area. Mouth is red. Body is black and tapers down to an outward flaring handle.

Brown wood clapper painted with face designs carved on both sides. One face has black circle in circle eyes with a vertical white line for the pupils and black brows above. The open arch-shaped mouth shows eight white teeth. Above the mouth, there is a thin, truncated, black triangular-like shape with white dots. On top, there is a white spotted green frog that has its front right leg in between the face's eyes but more to the right side, its back right leg on top of the outer circle of the face's eye as it also partially covers the pupil, its back left leg in the middle of the face's wide truncated, black triangular-like shape, and its front left leg on the face's other eye. Along the top and the bottom of the face, there is a pair of thin, red split u's. The other face is similar but instead it has a thin, truncated, white triangular-like shape with black dots and black teeth with no frog on top.

Oval-shaped wooden clapper with long handle. Body of clapper is shaped in the form of a killer whale, has a protruding dorsal fin, a small ridge near the end of the face, and carved form lines on its body. The body of the killer whale is split in half down the length of the clapper. The top side of the clapper is of the dorsal fin, and the bottom side of the body is the underside of the killer whale's belly. At the end of the clapper, is the killer whale's tail fin. Fibre cording is wrapped around the tail fin to connect the two portions together.