Behind every face is a human being, guarantees curator Paul Voogt. In fact, beneath the painted exterior are five skulls of real people who walked around Papua New Guinea not even that long ago. And that feels more and more uncomfortable, he thinks.
The article also deals with mummified persons from Egypt in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden museum and with a series of masks from the early twentieth century from the island of Nias in Indonesia of the University Museum in Utrecht.
