The Museum of East Texas is currently displaying African masks and artifacts on loan from the Michelson Museum of Art until April 15. Approximately a year and a half ago, MET executive director John ...

As a young girl growing up in southeastern San Diego’s Shelltown neighborhood, Denise Rogers spent time flipping through the pages of Time and Life magazines her mother kept on their coffee table. At ...

Click to open image viewer. This mask represents a beautiful young woman adorned with tattoos, earrings and an elaborate coiffure. The original Chokwe name (pwo) referred to an adult woman who had ...

Baule mask Ivory Coast wood height: 43 in. (109 cm.) base by wood artist Kichizô Inagaki (1876–1951) (image courtesy Christie’s) Popularly known as the “Krugier-Picasso mask,” a 19th century West ...

African masks in performance The spectacular masks of the Winiama people in the rural village of Ouri in Burkina Faso perform to reenact the encounters between the village ancestors and the spirits of ...

Although most African masks are made of wood, some, especially from West Africa, are made entirely from metals such as iron, copper, brass and, more recently, aluminum. It is more common, however, to ...

23.5 x 17.75 in. (59.7 x 45.1 cm.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...