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- In African art: Nupe
…masks are made for the elo, a purely secular performance intended only to entertain (nowadays held on the Prophet’s birthday). The elo mask has a human face with a motif (sometimes a human figure) rising above it, flanked with stylized horns. The gugu masquerader wears a cloth mask decorated with…
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