The older student will be able to do more indepth research that can result in a deeper understanding of the art form of the transformation mask. Richard Hunt's website at richardhunt.com/news.htm includes an essay by the artist titled "Art versus Cultural Property". He makes an argument to have the art of the Native Americans become their cultural property. A discussion could occur asking, "who owns ideas or a style?".

The creation of a transformation mask can be done using any artistic style, of course. I would challenge the older student to use stronger mediums such as found objects; wood pieces; or even corrugated cardboard. The use of sharp tools for cutting can be handled safely by the older student and the results are much more impressive than markers on tagboard.

The book Sculpture in Paper (Nicholas Roukes. Davis Publications. 1993) has some tremendous techniques and ideas for sculpting with paper that would be very useful for maskmaking.