David Attenborough recorded one of these graceful masks being danced at a Dogon sigi ceremony in the film on the Dogon in the series The Tribal Eye made during the 1970s. The similarity of the black and red decoration on these masks (though now missing on the present example) to the decoration on some of the masks of the Mossi, the Dogon's neighbours to the south-west suggests that the mask was introduced from the Mossi area during this century. According to Roy (Roy, C., Art of the Upper Volta Rivers, Paris, 1987, p.135), these masks may be the work of a family of carvers in the southern Kurumba area.