African mask wood African real figure vintage masks for wall Kplé Kplé mask for the Goli GURO-G1180

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the " Goli mask " is a one-day show which normally mask the whole village and which brings up four pairs of masks, accompanied by music played by particular instruments and, if the conditions are perfectly favourable, by a large amount of palm wine that is consumed with great joy. The use of this dance is relatively recent for the Baoulé who learned it less than a hundred years ago from their neighbours, the Wan . In the mid-1950s, Donald Thurow estimated that the Baoulé villages of the Agba region danced the Goliabout twice a month (1957, 18). In the 1970s, the Goli was the most popular and most appreciated of all the Baoulé mask dances