Notebook

Some We masks have exaggerated features, with horns, tusks, protuberant eyes and bulging foreheads; some have been called cubist. By comparison, this mask is restrained, the only ornament being the red. white and blue paint (camwood, kaolin and Reckitt’s blue), and quill teeth. Formerly there may well have been bells around the chin, as perforations indicate.

Margaret Carey, 1997

Entry taken from Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, Vol. 2: Pacific, African and Native North American Art, edited by Steven Hooper (Yale University Press, 1997) p. 123.