Winiama masks from the village of Ouri, Burkina Faso

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"The Winiama people in the rural village of Ouri, in Burkina Faso, perform to reenact the encounters between the village ancestors and the spirits of the wilderness. This video emphasizes performan...

"The Winiama people in the rural village of Ouri, in Burkina Faso, perform to reenact the encounters between the village ancestors and the spirits of the wilderness. This video emphasizes performance. There are lots of long takes of individual mask's performances from start to finish, with musical accompaniment, crowd reaction. Among the spirit characters that perform are the bush-buffalo, monkey, chameleon, female bush spirit, mosque, church, and the dangerous curved horn masks"--Container.

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