Art of the Mende is an archival film about the Mende people of Sierra Leone, filmed in the mid-1970s. Content includes village life, women's societies dances, a village ritual dance, and carving and creation of a mask.  

The film is in color, with sound, 8mm film, 9 minutes and 44 seconds long, made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The film is labelled NEHProduction-Part1.avi.