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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 1090361, member: 8267&quot;]Can&#039;t remember where I read it, but there may be some truth to a story I learned about some types of African art - that our categories of &quot;made for use&quot; (good) and &quot;made for sale&quot; (bad) may sometimes overlap. As others have noted, wooden objects don&#039;t last a long time in much of the African climate. And I don&#039;t believe things such as masks were kept as heirlooms, handed down through generations. Mask making is a continuing tradition - masks are made, used for awhile, and then replaced. The used ones can then be sold. So it is not impossible to find masks on the market with ethnographic &quot;legitimacy&quot;. Which is not to say that there is not also a thriving market for pseudo authentic masks, as well as outright tourist bait.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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