The ubiquitous masks carved by the African people to be used in the day to day struggles and rejoicing in their lives. African masks are worn in dance ceremonies for many occasions such as invoking the deity to send rain, bringing about a plentiful harvest, memorializing a departed soul, fertility, initiations, warding off evil and just celebrating life.The face has been a great subject for the artists, even more so than the human body. In carving the African mask, the need to follow the day to day expressions of the human face in the realm of the supernatural is apparent and this is effectively done with the distortion of a single feature. One of the features of African masks most commonly used in this way is the eyes - the most expressive of all the facial features. While the mouth, the protruding tongue, the cone like elongated nose can effectively convey humor, terror, aggression and more, it is the eyes that convey the true message, even if at times, this message is ambiguous.Distortion through physical forms, material colors, etc. are used as a tool by the African artist however, its result can never diffuse the image of a human face, that in art, always remains recognizable and awesome.