1.   Avant-garde artists were already smitten with African masks and sculpture.

2.   But after snapping up their postcards and African masks, most tourists leave with only the most fleeting of contacts with the ordinary people.

3.   Edwardian-cut jackets had buttons resembling African masks.

4.   He plans to make an African mask from his stone.

5.   He is still looking for institutions interested in buying other ensembles, like the African masks and the Indonesian stone statues.

6.   Her primary subject is the female body, whose appearance may be stylized like an African mask or as voluptuous as a classical nude.

7.   LaVonne Mason has a deep affection for old African masks and antique European-style furniture.

8.   Most startling of all, he temporarily turns dignified African masks into fountains.

9.   On one recent afternoon here, hundreds of shoppers mulled over abstract paintings, installation art and African masks as they strolled from gallery to gallery.

10.   One designer interpreted the traditional European ball-gown shape in an indigenous African print, bejeweling it with small gold-colored African masks around the throat.