Advice on Wooden African Masks

1. Smell it. A horse hair beard may look cool, but you may not notice that barn smell till it's too late.
2. Freeze it. It'll kill the termites and all those bugs living inside the horse hair.
3. When you bang the mask against the side of the house to get rid of the creepy crawlies and the horse hair actually starts falling off the mask in chunks, admit your mistake and throw the thing away.
4. Hope that the Guinea god/spirit that the mask represented doesn't have striking power all the way to Ghana.