Tuesday, September 23, 2014

 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.

2 Comments:

Blogger mary said...

I remember these outfits from the Festival sur le Niger. Wonderful. And also some ancient examples in the Textile museum in Bamako.
Mary

12:42 PM  
Blogger toubab said...

again, Mary, check this blog on December 3, 2010, for a great hunter in Diafarabe!

4:36 PM  

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