Young Urhoba women adorn their bodies with camwood, a natural red cosmetic, to indicate their passage through the sacred rites of passage into marriage. This mask, with its vivid countenance, evokes the beauty of a bride, or opha, whose body glows red. The mask’s visual association to a bride is reinforced by the presence of the two horns at its crown, which may evoke the hairstyle worn by Urhoba brides in the past. The vertical lines across its forehead mark the bride as Urhobo, and a pristine white costume would signal its status as a water spirit. While red camwood may have spoken to masculinity among Bullom and Pende communities, for Urhobo it signals the beauty of a nubile woman.