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Skin Masks
A Review of Keith Nicklin's Nigerian Skin-Covered Masks

Here is a document on Nigerian Skin-Covered Masks for you by Evelyn Asare
The African Culture is slipping away slowly. this is my way of passing the information about African Arts to you!

ABSTRACT

This essay looks at skin masks as it reviews Keith Nicklin’s article, “Nigerian Skin-covered Masks”(1974) by paying attention to how skin masks are made, uses of skin masks, groups that use them, how they were preserved and whether they still exist in the 21st century.

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