One of the most intriguing patients at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is a fearsome-looking helmet mask from the Dallas Museum of Art’s collection. The museum’s Conservation and Arts ...

Part of a collaboration with radiologists from UT Southwestern Medical Center, this exhibition features a CT scan of an elaborate West African helmet mask, worn by the Senufo people, from the museum’s ...

Click to open image viewer. Helmet masks called sowei or ndoli jowei among the Mende, Sherbro and Vai and zogbe among the Gola of Sierra Leone and Liberia are women’s masquerades performed by members ...

Whether sequestered behind glass in a museum or sold to tourists along Fifth Avenue, the African mask is an image from the non-Western world that we are all familiar with. Yet walking though the ...

It seems no museum collection is complete without a few token African masks. Many of us have glimpsed them walking between exhibits, but few of us know what role they actually play to the many ...

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Click to open image viewer. Senufo horizontal masks are generally composites of carved animal parts--jaws, teeth, ears and horns. Most frequently seen are the muzzle of the crocodile, the tusks of the ...