Although they look like an African version of the famous Russian babushka dolls, the baskets reflects a man’s dignity among the Karaboros in Burkina Faso. In a traditional Karaboro wedding, the future husband buys a set of Bobochiaas, which is a set of ”wedding baskets” […]
The word ‘fetish’ probably brings up some rather saucy mental images to most of our readers. But in anthropology, a ‘fetish’ is an object, which is considered to be imbued with spiritual power or magical potency. This metal spear from Boulon in Burkina Faso might […]
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