The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from UMMA’s African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created, used, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey, spanning a hundred years, three continents, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands. Drawing on the Museum’s African collection and national loans, Traces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Explore some of the historical complexity of this mask with UMMA docents.