The paint is black and red.

The paint is red and black.

Nothern Northwest Coast artists (Northern Wakashan, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida) used an abstract two-dimensional style of design known as formline design. Abstract animal and human forms decorate the front and back of this box, with simpler bird's heads on the sides.

The glass bead is blue.

This Kwa' Laba Kuth, or Wildman, mask represents one of the ghost-like forest spirits that appear during the Makah Klookwalli ceremonial. Similar ghost-like spirits are represented in mask form among neighboring tribes: Pukmis and Ahlmako of the Nuu-chah-nulth, the Bukwus of the Kwakiutl. Their ghostly qualities are sometimes represented by skull-like heads with hooked noses and bared teeth in grimacing mouths.