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The Bwa is an African society that is native to Burkina Faso. This society has an approximate population of over 300,000 persons. The Bwa people live in a number of individualized communities. They have no central government, and rely on their community standards. They are most known for their scarification and elaborate plank masks. [2]
The Bwa produce several different kinds of masks, including leaf masks dedicated to the god named Dwo, and wooden masks dedicated to the god Lanle. Leaf masks, Bwa village of Boni, 2006 Bwa masks, village of Dossi, 1985. The style of the Bwa is well-known to collectors and scholars around the world.
For example, both the Bwa and the Buna people of Burkina Faso have hawk masks, with the shape of the beak identifying a mask as either Bwa or Buna. In both cases, the hawk's wings are decorated with geometric patterns that have moral meanings; saw-shaped lines represent the hard path followed by ancestors, while chequered patterns represent the ...
According to Ki Leonce, executive director of ASAMA, "There are two aspects about masks. One is cult and the other is culture; there might be a religious conflict for people who venerate masks, but there is no conflict from the cultural point." [8] The original FESTIMA, held in 1996, was four days long, and the event has since expanded to seven ...
Bobo people along the Niger River in Djenné, Mali Bobo mask. The Bobo are a Mande ethnic group living primarily in Burkina Faso, with some living north in Mali.Bobo is also a shortened name of the second-largest city in Burkina Faso, Bobo-Dioulasso.
The Baboa people (singular Boa, also Ababua, Ababwa, Babua, Babwa, Bwa) are an ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They speak the Bwa language. [1] The Baboa live in the savanna region in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are in close contact with the Mangbetu and Zande peoples. [2]
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These masks almost always have streaks (incised or painted) on their surface and they are sometimes round shaped (especially among the Luba). [1] They were used in ceremonies of the Kifwebe secret societies where dances of the same name were performed, and the masks were then dressed with beards of long plant fibres attached to holes on the edges of the mask (Figure A).