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This type of mask to the characteristic geometrical forms
is used in ritual funerary Dogon country to guide it dead towards the
world of the ancestors.
It is not rare that at the time of the ceremony (dama)
which takes place approximately every 5 years, they are several hundreds
of this type of masks which are shown.
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