The New Orleans Museum of Art just opened “New African Masquerades ... who taught him the wood carving skills at the center of their ensembles. Sanou’s carved masks can feature realistic ...

Erika Witt had been up until 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, making sure that every ceremonial mask, every piece of fragile pottery and every carved wooden figure was perfectly in place. The Southern ...

The artifacts were buried in the graves of a young woman and child, who may have converted to Christianity in Africa before ...

Archaeologists have unearthed 73 strange mummies in Peru, some with carved masks, from different time ­periods ranging from around AD800 to AD1100. The mummies were found in ­funerary bundles in ...

MONTPELLIER: A carved mask from Central Africa, dating from the 19th century ... for the item’s “‘restitution”. The rare wooden “Ngil” mask, used in ceremonies by the Fang ethnic ...

A French couple in their 80s obtained the wooden mask from an ancestor who was a governor in Africa, according to CNN, and kept the family heirloom in their second home in the south of France ...