The peoples who make masks like this one begin preparing for death as soon as they are born. To them, death is the permanent state, while life is just the way one prepares for death.

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The peoples who make masks like this one begin preparing for death as soon as they are born. To them, death is the permanent state, while life is just the way one prepares for death.

Funerary Mask (Tatanua)

Africa & Pacific Islands: Owsley Ethnographic Gallery»

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