"Clearly, Mark has provided great service in preserving for the ethnographic record documentation on masks that are apparently rapidly deteriorating. These masks have also provided Mark with a wonderful vehicle for the publication of valuable materials on the history of the Casamance. As a scholar of the Basse-Casamance, I found the detailed and extensive discussion of the region's history extremely well informed and engaging." Museum Anthropology

• Foreword; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: method and subject; 2. Ethnographic background; 3. Bukut initiation; 4. History and provenance of the Ejumba mask; 5. Iconography of the horned mask; 6. Mandinka or Jola? Art and culture as regional processes; 7. Islam and Casamance masking traditions; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.

"Clearly, Mark has provided great service in preserving for the ethnographic record documentation on masks that are apparently rapidly deteriorating. These masks have also provided Mark with a wonderful vehicle for the publication of valuable materials on the history of the Casamance. As a scholar of the Basse-Casamance, I found the detailed and extensive discussion of the region's history extremely well informed and engaging." Museum Anthropology

• Foreword; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: method and subject; 2. Ethnographic background; 3. Bukut initiation; 4. History and provenance of the Ejumba mask; 5. Iconography of the horned mask; 6. Mandinka or Jola? Art and culture as regional processes; 7. Islam and Casamance masking traditions; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.

"Clearly, Mark has provided great service in preserving for the ethnographic record documentation on masks that are apparently rapidly deteriorating. These masks have also provided Mark with a wonderful vehicle for the publication of valuable materials on the history of the Casamance. As a scholar of the Basse-Casamance, I found the detailed and extensive discussion of the region's history extremely well informed and engaging." Museum Anthropology

• Foreword; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: method and subject; 2. Ethnographic background; 3. Bukut initiation; 4. History and provenance of the Ejumba mask; 5. Iconography of the horned mask; 6. Mandinka or Jola? Art and culture as regional processes; 7. Islam and Casamance masking traditions; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.