From the Igbo people, Southern Nigeria (early 1900's). The Igbo people separate the burial of the body from the elaborate community celebrations that occur weeks and sometimes years after the death. As part of the festivities, which make sure the deceased’s spirit moves on to the next world, male dancers perform dressed as young women. The costumes reflect female painted body patterns and the maiden spirit mask the purity of deceased young women, whose spirit would enter the young man dancing in the mask.