Simo Secret Society Helmet Mask

Spurlock Collection: 1971.13.0018, 1971.13.0019, 1972.28.0001, 2000.18.0001A/B

Adams, Monni. Designs for Living. Cambridge, MA: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 1982. P. 64-65. Geunneguez, Andre and Afo. Arte de la Cote d’Ivoire et de ses Voisins. Paris: L’Harmattan, n.d. P. 67. The American Museum of Natural History (African Ethnographic Museum collection): http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/africa_public/africa_public.htm Note: search all cultures for “helmet mask”. Boone, Sylvia Ardyn. Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art. Yale University Press, 1986. Mato, Daniel et al. Sande: Masks and Statues from Liberia and Sierra-Leone. Publisher: Galerie Balolu, University of California, 1990 (contains 151 pages of mostly photographs of different Sande masks). National Museum of African Art http://africa.si.edu/collections/. Note: a search for Mende peoples provides a list of helmet masks . Phillips, Ruth Bliss. Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades of the Mende of Sierra Leone. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1995.