ABSTRACT
Reprinted from African Studies Bulletin, Vol. 5, May 1962, no. 11, pp. 8-13. Roy Sieber is Professor and Chairman of Fine Arts Department at Indiana University. He has conducted three research trips to Africa; the first, in 1958, resulted in the monograph, “The Sculpture of Northern Nigeria” (Museum of Primitive Art, New York, University Publishers, December, 1961). It was during that research tour that the data concerning the Igala mask were discerned. Two later trips to Ghana centered on the study of the history of leadership arts among the Akan.
