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Genre/Form: | Documentary films Nonfiction films Short films |
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Named Person: | Gnoumou family. |
Material Type: | Videorecording |
Document Type: | Visual material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Christopher D Roy; Laughing Dove Films.; Art and Life in Africa Project. |
OCLC Number: | 78758748 |
Notes: | Title on videodisc: African art as theater: the art of the Gnoumou family of the Bwa village of Boni. This recorded DVD-R may not be compatible with all DVD players or drives. |
Credits: | Filmed by Abdoulaye Bamogo, Jacob Bamogo, Christopher D. Roy. |
Description: | 1 videodisc (approximately 25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Details: | DVD-R. |
Contents: | Planks -- Bush pig -- Serpent -- Monkeys -- Female spirit -- Crocodiles -- Theater -- Chameleon -- Crazy man. |
Other Titles: | Bwa masks Masks of the Gnoumou family of the village of Boni Art of the Gnoumou family of the Bwa village of Boni |
Responsibility: | Laughing Dove Films and the Art and Life in Africa Project present ; by Christopher D. Roy. |
Abstract:
"Masks of the Gnoumou family of the village of Boni in theatrical perfomance. African families in Burkina Faso make masks for use in performances that reenact the encounters between their ancestors and the spirits of the wilderness that watch over them. In a series of performances in the Bwa village of Boni you will see these encounters and stories from family history acted out in detail by the masks and the audience"--Container.
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- Gnoumou family.
- Masks, Bwa -- Burkina Faso -- Boni.
- Bwa (African people) -- Burkina Faso -- Boni -- Rites and ceremonies.
- Rites and ceremonies -- Burkina Faso -- Boni.
- Boni (Burkina Faso) -- Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Masks, Bwa.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Burkina Faso -- Boni.
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