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An <n>Egungun</n> masquerade from Benin. Photo by <n>Stephan Gladieu</n>.

A <n>Bamileke Elephant Mask</n> from Cameroon, photographed by <n>Charles Duvelle</n> for the 1965 album <n>Musiques du Cameroun</n>.

<n>মীরার লীলা</n>. Photo by <n>Anik Saha</n>.

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Plate XXXII from <n>Thomas Wright</n>'s 1750 book, <n>An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe</n>.

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Digital illustration "<n>Grandmother Spirit</n>" by artist <n>Amalia Rachel</n>.

An <n>Egungun costume</n> of the Ijebu Yoruba people of Nigeria. Photo by <n>M.T. Drewal</n>, 1986.

A <n>Gagu, Dan</n> masquerade figure in Ivory Coast, photographed by <n>Phyllis Galembo</n> in 2006.

Photo by <n>Jean-Claude Moschetti</n> in Burkina-Faso, 2010.

Untitled from the <n>Egungun series</n> (2011) by photographer <n>Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou</n>.

A composite image by <n>Xygen</n> featuring the <n>Flag of Somalia</n> for <n>Somalia Independence Day</n>.

<n>Varvara Orlova</n> models for a portrait she photographed, with makeup by <n>Ksenia Bagrova</n>.

A 20th-century <n>Kuosi Society Elephant Mask</n> from the <n>Bamileke</n> people of Cameroon, in the <n>Brooklyn Museum</n> collection.

A double-headed <n>Yoruba Gelede mask</n> from Dahomey, from the book <n>L'art africain</n> by <n>Dennis Duerden</n> (1969).

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Portrait of a <n>Shilluk</n> woman in South Sudan. Photo by <n>Eliot Elisofon</n> for LIFE, 1947.