Kple Kple masks dancers during a Goli performance, Kondeyaokro village, Ivory Coast

"In the Baule version of the Goli dance, four pairs of masks appear two by two in a fixed order: first a pair of disc-faced masks (usually called Kple Kple), next a pair of animal helmet masks (Goli Glen), third a pair of horned face masks (Kpan Pre), and finally two human-faced masks with crested hairdos (Kpan). Masks of the Kple Kple and Kpan Pre are distinguished by color: the male mask is painted red, the female black." [Vogel S., 1997: Baule: African Art, Western Eyes, Yale University Press]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for National Geographic and traveled to Africa from January 19, 1972 to mid April 1972.