Other exhibitions have featured masks, the integration of words into art, recycled art, hats and buttons.

An adjunct exhibition, "The Puppet World of Brad Williams," is to feature rod puppets, hand puppets and masks.

The museum specializes in African art, and predominantly features African masks.

Two pictures featuring masks also stand out.

Bahamian culture is expressed most colourfully in "Junkanoo" street celebrations, which feature rhythmic music, dance and elaborate costumes and masks.

Gabon also features internationally celebrated masks, such as the n'goltang (Fang) and the relicary figures of the Kota.

Other demonstrations put on that summer featured singing, dancing, masks, costumes, makeup, and signs.

This version by Playtime Productions features music, drama, masks and mime; for more information the number to call is 674-0906.

(One example: Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" features tribal masks as faces on some of its five angular nudes.)

It features white masks, ingeniously formed by pouring plaster into the cavities of a cinderblock wall.