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The young boys performing this masquerade learned their acrobatics in school. What have you learned in gym class? Igbo and Benue peoples, Nigeria Photograph by Eli Bentor, 1988	These performers enact skits that often criticize community members who do not behave as they should. Igbo peoples, Mgbom village, Afikpo, Nigeria Photograph by Simon Ottenberg, 1960
Child¹s mask Artist: Chukwu Okoro Igbo peoples, Nigeria c. 1952 Wood, plant fiber, pigment Collection of Simon Ottenberg	Child¹s mask Idoma peoples, Nigeria 20th century Wood, cloth, pigment, string Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, X69.73