African Dance Chiwara Mask Ismael Flores This exquisite ink drawing

This exquisite ink drawing

Designed by the renowned ceramicist Barbara Willis

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African Dance Chiwara Mask Ismael Flores This exquisite ink drawingChiwara is a ritual object representing an antelope, used by the Bambara ethnic group in Mali. The Chiwara initiation society uses Chiwara masks. The Chi Wara is always danced with each wooden figure attached to a basket on the dancers head, and the body covered in a huge pile of raffia. Often, the face is obscured with raffia that has been colored or decorated, and the dancer carries a long staff. The figures are always in one or more male female