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This expressionistic mask comes form the Mambila people of northern Nigeria.
They were transferred as a group from the grasslands of northern Cameroon to northern Nigeria in 1961. Living in the Grasslands region of Cameroon and Nigeria, the Mambila hold dances at the end of the planting and harvesting seasons, in June-July and December-January.
Male dancers wearing brightly-painted, carved wooden masks or a grass-woven costume dance in a strictly ranked order of appearance that includes a human-headed mask followed by a mask called Suah Bur and a similar, but smaller mask called Suah Dua.
The last mask to appear is a male dancer wearing a woven grass costume either dyed a dark color or patterned with red.
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