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with Indigenous Songbird and Fern
with Indigenous Songbird and Fern
In
most traditional African cultures the person wearing the ritual mask conceptually
loses his or her human life and turns into the spirit represented by the
mask itself. They become a medium between the community and the dead,
or nature-related spirits, often bearing a resemblance to the western
idea of theater.
