This mask is carved in the "classical" Dan style, which reflects some of the Dan’s most important standards of beauty–a regularly shaped face; a slightly arched, high forehead; soft, emphatic cheekbones; a fine nose; and a protruding mouth. The eyes are generally slit-shaped or circular. It may have been an ancestral mask, an "avenger," or simply a singing or talking mask. If the function of the mask was not noted on the spot when it was collected, its function is impossible to determine solely on the basis of the design.