Senoufu

At the final ritual of a funeral young Poro initiates, accompanied by one stringed calabash harps
called "bolongo", dance as Panther acrobats

 

 

                          

 

 

Dioula women spin the cotton and the men weave it into long strips, As Muslims they can't make figurative art so the Senoufu artisans, living close-by in Kohorgo, paint the cloth with brown/black fermented leaf/corn cob dye

                        

 

     

 

   
     
     
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