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The mask Toussian is a mask which regulates the life of the community. It is going generally to bless cereal intended to be sowed. If the harvests turn out good, one is going to sacrifice it a white chicken.
Toussian goes out also during the death of a ancien), for circumcisions... It takes away the evil, brings health and training to initiated.
The mask that we present, is a recent mask Toussian, resulting from BoBo Dioulasso's region in Burkina. Soft wood.
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A man who continually laments is not heeded. 
