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Masques Bambara
In Mali, Bambara set up the ethnic group most important and Bampbara is the common language of Mali. Out of ground Malian, this country or côtoient hardness with the daily newspaper and the supernatural one of the beliefs animist crosses the dances coloured, with imposing masks in charge of symbolic systems (cow, elephant, bird, gazelle, wolf, robber, Mother Superior, healer, a mixture of loincloths, feathers, mirrors, collars of shells). The craftsmen of wood "Koulé" make parties of one of the social classes, as in all the animists, one finds the worship of the spirits which leads to the fetishes (boli) and the grigris. Among many the secret society, most important is the komo. Each company has its masks fugurant a head of animal or a man referring of an animal. The most famous sculpture will bambara, the tyi will wara (tyi = straw, will wara = savage animal) belongs to the company kono, it leads the dances at the time of the burials, the festivals of initiation, the prayers for the rain and the fertility of the fields. The masks will bambara are all the symbolization of an animal to the long horns and the large ears. The role of the initiatory company of Bamana (dyow) is the deepening of the ethical values, this knowledge is exempted to the neophytes through the songs which accompanies the entry in scene by the masked dancers. The singer expresses himself through an eunuch flute on a tone nasillard which is supposed to imitate the human conscience which shows the good way. The dancers make a high choreography in symbolic system, fast rotation to symbolize the race of planets and the play of the hide-and-seek between the sun and the moon.
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