BWA PLANK MASKS, Burkina Faso

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Plank Mask 2 64" $550	Plank Mask 3 63" $500	Plank Mask 4 77" $800	Plank Mask 5 72", SOLD
BwaMask 6 74", SOLD	BwaMask 7 79" $900	BwaMask 8 83" $1200	Bwa Sun Masks Catalog

Photographs © Tim Hamill

These tall headdresses transformed the dancer into a supernatural being. They were used by the Do society at dances to promote fertility of the fields and at funerals of Do members. The geometric designs all have meanings. The checkerboard pattern symbolizes the separation of light from dark, good from evil, and female from male.

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