approximately 32cm length 68cm width 4cm height
The Sisiyutl is a fabulous being, which takes the form of a double-headed snake. He consists of a frontal face flanked by two heads in profile each with a sharp protruding tongue and curved hom. The frontal face is commonly represented with teeth bared and two horns. About it, Franz Boas writes: "perhaps the most important among the fabulous monster is the Sisyiutl."The sisiyutl swims in the water like fish. When it is shot at, it unfolds and shows its true form. A person who finds the tracks of a double-headed serpent and washes his hands in the slime left on the trail has his hands turned into stone. Clotted blood of the Sisiyutl rubbed on the body transforms the skin into stone. Its skin put on the head ring of red cedar-bark kills those who see it, turns them into stone, or transforms them into foam.