The air is filled with blue clouds of gunpowder from the hunters’
guns, as they file past wearing their pungent bogolan outfits, bedecked with bones,
teeth, animal hornes and mirror shards
while the hunters' griots play their gonis in slow incantantory tones.
posted by toubab at 8:29 PM
2 Comments:
I remember these outfits from the Festival sur le Niger. Wonderful. And also some ancient examples in the Textile museum in Bamako.
Mary
again, Mary, check this blog on December 3, 2010, for a great hunter in Diafarabe!
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