Egungun

Yoruba masquerade society through which the ancestors visit the living. An Egungun mask-costume entirely envelops the dancer in layered cloth (aṣọ), often with embroidered panels, mirrors, and amulets — the wearer is, ritually, no longer a man but the ancestor returned.

Egungun performances mark festivals, succession rites, and funerary closures. The cloth ensemble is the carrier of presence; the wooden mask-element (when present) is secondary.