Masks are now required until further notice when entering the Dallas Area Municipal Authority’s administration building. DAMA made the announcement on its Facebook page Tuesday morning, one day ...

Traditionally Dogon masks are controlled by the Awa society, a group of predominantly male initiates who conduct the public rites that insure the transition of the dead into the spirit world. A large ...

The society's age-grouped membership functions outside the standard Dogon organizing factors of lineage and village. It conducts the public rites that insure the transition of the dead into the spirit ...