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Traditional Mossi society is composed of two important strata. A political elite called nakomse is descended from the mounted warriors who subjugated the original agriculturalist populations of the White Volta River basin at the end of the...
This is a particularly elaborate version of the Mossi girls¹ doll called biiga. Like all such dolls, it displays the marks of adult female beauty, including scars on the abdomen that indicate she has born her first child. The elongated breasts...
This is a particularly elaborate version of the Mossi girls¹ doll called biiga. Like all such dolls, it displays the marks of adult female beauty, including scars on the abdomen that indicate she has born her first child. The elongated breasts...
This type of mask which is both totemic and ancestral is used by the nyonyose clans of Mossi society. It represents a being who plays an important role in the myth of the founding of the particular clan that owns the mask and serves as a physical...
This doll displays many more signs of use and wear than others in the collection. It is not at all unusual to find in a Mossi home a doll or two abandoned by the children in some dusty corner of the courtyard, for the dolls are, at least in their...
This is a particularly elaborate version of the Mossi girls¹ doll called biiga. Like all such dolls, it displays the marks of adult female beauty, including scars on the abdomen that indicate she has born her first child. The elongated breasts...
Mossi dance crests of this type are carved and used in a small area of western and north central Mossi country defined by Yako in the west and Kongoussi in the north. Called zazaido (singula zazaigo) they are worn by members of men's voluntary...
The Mossi states were founded in about 1500 when a group of horsemen from northern Ghana rode into the basin of the White Volta River and conquered a number of small farmer groups. In the north, in the Yatenga area of Upper Volta around the city of...
Male priests of the cult of the Yoruba trickster, Eshu (also called Elegba) the god of uncertainty, change, malicious mischief, and sexual energy, wear hook shaped wands (ogo elegba) over their left shoulders (Wescott 1962:337). This beautiful...