I’ll make that nose.” Many masks are sketched on pieces of scrap paper before Schwartzman cuts into 2-by-3-foot sheets of copper. They carefully plan each incision into the metal, ensuring that no ...

Copper masks and copper-plated masks have been intermittently reported in Upper Kasai since the 1950s and are variously attributed to the Dzing (Kongo-Dinga), Kete, Lwalu and Salampasu. In recent ...