In the next category, "Watching," the compelling objects are several portrait masks used in dances with animals or birds extravagantly embellishing the human face.

It was a portrait mask, such as they use in comedy, only less crude; a caricature, but a subtle one, toned down to the tragic style.

This assembly of 135 breathtaking objects includes elegant portrait masks, spirit spouse figures, feared and fearful animal masks and objects for everyday use.

On one side, textbook masterpieces of Baule art - a male divination figure of taut, pneumatic nobility, a woman's portrait mask with a heart-shaped face and a fantastic asymmetrical hairdo - are spotlighted in vitrines.

At the Donald Ellis Gallery of Ontario, a life-size wooden portrait mask of a man (circa 1840-1860), from northern British Columbia, impresses with an austere stylization that nevertheless makes a wonderfully expressive visage.

Seven portrait masks on keystones above the nave arcades in St. Mary-Le-Bow church, the City of London.

The funeral procession was public and elaborate, led by professional mourners, including actors who wore the portrait masks (imagines) of the dead person's notable ancestors.

Klee's "Junger Mann am Vorabend" (1933), an eloquently Expressionist portrait in green against a bright blue ground, has an intensity of expression matching that of a magnificently brooding carved portrait mask from the Tsimshian Indian culture of the Northwest Coast.

These 135 breathtaking objects include elegant portrait masks, spirit spouse figures, feared and fearful animal masks and items for everyday use.