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 ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Helmet masks such as this are known ...

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 ...

For more than three decades, James Gaasch helped bring the globe to Humboldt State University as a professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures. He taught numerous courses during his ...

African culture shown through ceremonial masks and relics passed down for generations are on display this month at the Spartanburg Art Museum. Dozens of pieces used for everything from celebrating ...

From masks worn to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to Hong Kong protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks during anti-China protests, 2020 is a time of masks. Yet in much of Africa, such face coverings masks ...