Mask of Begtse Chen from Mongolia (20th century), papier-mâché, coral, turquoise, metal, fabric, in ‘Becoming Another: The Power of Masks’ at the Rubin Museum of Art (all photos by the author for ...

A rare look into the traditional ways of creating the beautiful masks that have brought such admiration to the Native American carvers of the Pacific Northwest. Each step to carving such a mask is ...

Essay on the Chewa nyau masker, spirit medium, and sorcerer, which constitute three parts of a single cosmological system. Whereas masking, spirit possession, and sorcery are usually treated as ...