Walu Mask
This type of mask is also geometric in shape with a rectangular face, long straight nose triangular shaped eyeholes, and round pouted mouth and long horns that appears to look like ears. The mask depicts a mythical antelope known as Walu. According to legend God Amma assigned Walu, to protect the sun from Yurugu (Fox).
The Dogon uses the Walu masks during ceremonies to commemorate the origin of death. According to their myths, the Dogon's worship ancestors and communicate through the spirits. They also make agricultural sacrifices during these rituals. All major Dogon scared sites are believed to be a Dogon myth of the creation of the world, in particular to a deity named Nommo. Binu shrines house spirits of mythic ancestors who lived in the legendary era before the appearance of death among mankind. Binu spirits often make themselves known to their descendants in the form of an animal that interceded on behalf of the clan during its founding or migration, thus becoming the clan's totem. Dogon believe that death came into the world as a result of primeval man's transgressions against the divine order.