These spatulas, which are often decorated with rich carvings ritual sake drinking (kamuynomi) to deliver prayers/prayers to the kamuy (souls/powerful beings). prayers/requests. The decorations include geometric patterns, which often the origins of the ikupasuy, or cut-outs and figurative representations such as fish or whales. fish or whales. Libation spatula with a pointed front end and a flat back end cut off at the back. The surface is carved in relief with unusually shaped ornaments and covered with red-brown paint. covered with red-brown colour. The depression at the triangular tip (etopui, literally: "nostril") refers to East Hokkaidō. Due to the unusual design, as well as the lack of the usual notches at both ends, which serve as an owner's mark, it may not have been possibly not made by Ainu groups.