Seguono le denominazioni principali delle etnie dell'Africa dell'ovest e i link a singole o più fotografie raffiguranti le maschere.

Akan (Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo)

Asante / Achanti /Ashante / Asanti (Ghana)

Festival Mask
Earth Tribe

Baga / Bagga (Guinea, Sierria Leone)

Demba Mask
Musée d'Histoire naturelle - Toulouse, 135 cm
Mask
Nimba Mask
© Bayly Museum
Nimba Mask
© Nok Museum of African Art @ Harlemm

Bamileke / Mbalekeo / Mileke (Cameroun)

Bamileke Elephant
Bayly
Bamileke Elephant (detail)
Bayly
Bamileke Elephant (detail)
Bayly
Bamileke Elephant Mask with Leopard Crest
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 20th cent.
Female Shrine Mask
© University of Michigan

Bamum / Bamoum / Bamoun / Bamun / Banun / Mom / Mum / Mun (Cameroun)

Bamoum Mask
Heritage Museum
*Ceremonial Mask*
© Ralph Proctor Gallery, 46 cm
Nkam
Stanley Collection of African Art, © Art and Life in Africa Project & UIMA, 40 cm

Bassa / Basa (Liberia)

*Mask (mid page)*
Hamill Gallery of African Art

Baule / Baoule / Bawule (Côte d'Ivoire)

Baule Masking Performance, Goli Glin
© Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Goli Kplekple Mask
© Bayly Museum
Mask
Stanley Collection of African Art, © Art and Life in Africa Project & UIMA, 34 cm
*Mask*
Middlebury College

Benin (Nigeria ca. 1100 - 1900)

*Article on Benin Theater*
Ivory Pectoral Mask
Humboldt State University, Museum of Mankind, London
Idia's Mask
© Nok Museum of African Art @ Harlemm
*Mask*
Musée des Artes d'Afrique et d'Océanie
Pendan Mask
© Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bidyogo / Añaki / Bidjogo / Bidjago / Bijogo / Bijugo / Bissago (Guinée-Bissau)

*"Vaca bruto"*
© U of Michigan, ca. 1940

Bondoukou (toponym: early trading center in Côte d'Ivoire)

Bedu Masks
bedu "home" page
Do Mask
© Nok Museum of African Art @ Harlemm

Dan / Dan-Gioh / Gio / Gioh / Gyo / Yocouba / Yacuba / Yakuba (Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia)

Baboon Face
© U of Michigan, ca. 1950
Bird Mask
Bayly
Bird Mask
Musée Dapper, 25 cm
*Deangle and Kagle*
Middlebury College
Mask
University of Pennsylvania
Mask (bottom of page)
Mask (bottom of page)
Offshore Opportunities, 30 cm
Mask with Headress
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 20th cent.
Social Arbitrator
© Ralph Proctor Gallery, 68 cm
Tankale (front)
Bayly
Tankale (side)
Bayly
*Tankagle*
Stanley Collection of African Art, © Art and Life in Africa Project & UIMA, 24 cm

Ejagham / Ekoi (Cameroun, Nigeria)

Ekoi
ca. 1919
Janus-faced Mask
Mask with Antelope Skin
University of Pennsylvania
Mask with Large Spiral Headdress
Guggenheim
Trophy Mask
© Ralph Proctor Gallery, 73 cm

Fang / Fan / Mpangwe / Pahouin / Pamue / Pangwe (Cameroun, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea)

*Mask*
Musee National d'Art Moderne, 48 cm

Gola (Liberia, Sierra Leone)

Helmet Mask
University of Florida, © Harn Museum of Art, 83 cm

Grebo (Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia)

Face Mask
© Nok Museum of African Art @ Harlemm
Oubi Mask
© Nok Museum of African Art @ Harlemm

Guro / Gouro / Gwio / Kweni / Lo / Lorube (Côte d'Ivoire)

*"Colon" (Colonial) Mask*
© Ralph Proctor Gallery, 43 cm
*Gu Mask*
Middlebury College, 31 cm
*"Mamy Wata" Mask*
© Ralph Proctor Gallery, 41cm

Ibibio (Nigeria)

Ibuo-akwan
Stanley Collection of African Art, © Art and Life in Africa Project & UIMA, 28 cm
*Mask*
Stanley Collection of African Art, © Art and Life in Africa Project & UIMA, 29 cm
Mask Hinged Jaw
G.I. Jones

Eket [subcategory of Ibibio] (Nigeria)

Mask
Mask
Eket Mask (Nigeria) H: 35 cm - Musée Dapper

Otoro Ibibio

Mask at) Ikot Abia
G.I. Jones

Idoma (Nigeria)

Mask
© Emory University, 42 cm, 20th cent.

Ife / Ile-Ife (Nigeria)

Obalufon Mask
Humboldt State University,11th-12th cent

Igbo / Ibo (Nigeria)

Agbogho Mask
Christus Rex
*Agbobho Mmuo Mask*
© Emory University, 35 cm, late 19th - early 20th cent.
*Agbogho Mmuo Mask*
© Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 19th cent.
*Egbukele Society Headdress Mask*
© North Carolina Museum of Art, 227 cm, 20th cent.
*Funeral Mask*
© Ralph Proctor Gallery, 53 cm
Funeral Mask
© Ralph Proctor Gallery, 56 cm
Funeral Costume
© Ralph Proctor Gallery, 217 cm
Maiden ask (mid-page)
New World Gallery, 35 cm
*Maiden Mask (mid-page)*
Guggenheim
Maiden Mask
Middlebury College, 49 cm
*Mask*
University of Pennsylvania
Mask
Stanley Collection of African Art, © Art and Life in Africa Project & UIMA, 27 cm
*Mma ji*
Stanley Collection of African Art, © Art and Life in Africa Project & UIMA, 31 cm
*Muua Costum (Maiden Spirit)*
Okorosia n
Stanley Collection of African Art, © Art and Life in Africa Project & UIMA, 23 cm
*Ogbodo Enyi Costume, Spirit Elephant*
Proverb

Abiriba Igbo

Mask abiriba Igbo
Southern Illinois University, G. I. Jones Photographic Archive
Mask abiriba Igbo
Southern Illinois University, G. I. Jones Photographic Archive

Kom / Bamekom / Bekom / Bikom / Kom-Tikar / Nkom (Cameroun)

Kwifoyn Society Mask
Faces of Africa

Kono (Nigeria)

Kpelle / Gberese / Gerze / Guerze / Kpelli / Kpwesi / Pessi (Guinea, Liberia)

Kran / Kra / Krah / Krahn (Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia)

Mask
University of Michigan

Mambila / Mambilla (Cameroun, Nigeria)

*Mask*
Musée National des Artes d'Afrique et d'Océanie

Mende / Mendi (Liberia, Sierra Leone)

Bundu Mask
© Ralph Proctor Gallery, 48 cm
Bundu Mask
The Detroit News
Mask
Brave Neu World
Mask
Middlebury College
Sande Mask
© Emory University, 63 cm, late 19th - early 20th cent.
Sande Society Mask, Sowei
The Mint Museum of Art, 84 cm, 20th cent.
Sowei Mask (front)
Bayly
Sowei Mask (side)
Bayly

Ngere / Gere / Gere Wobe / Guere / Guere Wobe / Gwere / We / Wee (Côte d'Ivoire, Liberia)

Bagle Mask
Krahn Mask
Krahn Mask
Musée Dapper, 39 cm

Nafana / Nafambele / Nafanra / Nafara / Nafarha / Naffara (Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana)

Bedu Mask
© Nok Museum of African Art @ Harlemm>

Nago (Benin)

*Gelede Costume*
Legba Mask
Ethno Gallery

Nok (Nigeria, ca 500 BCE - 500 CE)

Nok Head
Humboldt State University

Ogoni (Nigeria)

Elu
Stanley Collection of African Art, © Art and Life in Africa Project & UIMA, 37 cm

Sherbro (Sierra Leone)

Susu / Soso / Soussou (Guinea, Guinée-Bissau)

Temne / Atemne / Timne (Sierra Leone)

Arabai Aron Mask
© Nok Museum of African Art @ Harlemm

Tikar (Cameroun, vedi anche Bamileke)

*Ceremonial Mask*
© Ralph Proctor Gallery, 42 cm
*Ceremonial Mask*
© Ralph Proctor Gallery, 42 cm

Yohure / Snan / Yaoure / Yaure (Côte d'Ivoire)

Yoruba / Yorba / Yorouba (Benin, Nigeria, Togo)

*Beaded Headdress*
© North Carolina Museum of Art, 52 cm, 20th cent.
Epa Cult Mask, Bamgboye
Getty ArtsEdNet, Detroit Institute of Arts, ca 1930
*Gelede Mask*
© Emory University, 42 cm, late 19th - early 20th cent.
Gelede Mask
Middlebury College, 27 cm
*Gelede Mask*
© St. Louis Art Museum, 32 cm, early 20th cent.
Hunt / Sacrifice Mask
Brave Neu World
Marikoto
American Museum of Natural History
Mask
University of Pennsylvania
The Sculpture of Sokari Douglas Camp