Peering into a peoples's soul. (Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of Asian Art) From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: October 5, 1987| Author: Horn, Miriam | COPYRIGHT 1987 All rights reserved. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The monster, liberated from its shrine, dominates the village square. Blood drips from its crocodile jaws as it gobbles up little boys But magically, the boys re-emerge as if reborn from the fearsome being's womb. And mysteriously, they reappear not as boys but as initiated men.

The carnage is actually stylized ritual: The monster is a man in an African mask, the blood is the juice of the kola nuts he chews and the belly of the beast is simply his voluminous skirts o...

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