BWA HAWK MASK 11, Burkina Faso
Photographs © Tim Hamill
BWA, HAWK MASK 11, 44" x 13", $600
These wide headdresses transformed the dancer into a supernatural being.
They were used by the Do society at dances to promote fertility of the fields
and at funerals of Do members. The geometric designs all have meanings.
The checkerboard pattern symbolizes the separation of light from dark, good
from evil, and female from male.
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