The Ghost masks, generally with roughly carved surfaces, white pigmentation, and tufts of hair, demonstrate a skeletal quality suggestive of ghostliness. The ghosts live in a village underground, called sometimes "the lowest one".Everything in the ghost village is the same as in our world, only their day is our night, our night their day. Living beings are invisible to them, but they recognize their presence by their bad odor. The chief of the ghost is sometimes called Wealth-Coming-Up, sometimes Bak'was.The ghosts of the Nimpkish live at Odza’las where their houses appear after the salmon season as soon as the people move to Xulk. Four houses of ghost are mentioned, in order of their distance from our world. Whoever goes to the last of the four house cannot come back, and whoever eats of the food the ghosts offer him must stay. At last, they go in a canoe to take the soul of the persons who have speared a double-headed serpent