Masks and figures covered with leather or, much earlier, with the skin of slain enemies are found primarily in the Cross River region, in the south-eastern part of Nigeria, as well as in adjacent western Cameroon. The use of skin-covered masks by the Bamum people in the core area of the Cameroon grasslands is infrequent. The fact that these masks nevertheless did exist in the Kouoboum Chiefdom can with certainty be attributed to the typical "African mobility". It was presumably a carver from the Cross River region who carried on the stylistic tradition of his homeland in the service of the head of the Kouoboum Chiefdom.