Mask Kple Kple Bla Femenina Del Goli

According to Susan Vogel, who has studied in depth the customs and traditions of BauléThe Goli is a show that lasts for a whole day and the whole population participates. It is an original Wen dance, its neighbours, that the Baulé copyed at the beginning of the century XIX.

It is a simple and popular dance that can be danced on fun holidays or funerals like the funerals of the notables. As in other dances, the masks appear in pairs, male and female but always carried by men, in a very similar dress. First appear the Kple-Kple masks, four pairs, which come out one after the other, followed by the Goli Glen zoomorf masks and then the Khan Pre horned masks. Finally the male masks whose braided hairstyles are shaped like a crest, the Kpan. Male masks are the first to dance. Both the entrance and the exit of the masks in theatrical and spectacular. Two dancers wearing a pair of Kpan masks, distinguishing the female mask from the male one after its features and its polychrome, closes the show. These two dancers carry behind their backs a leopard skin, symbol of royalty to indicate their supremacy over the rest of dancers who beat the antelope skins that cover them over their raffia garments. People have taken part in the show singing and shouting excited by palm wine, the noise of tam-tam and the rhythms of music. The participating audience ended up giving up after a day of dances and libations.

The Goli, Susan Vogel tells us, is not just a dance, it symbolizes for the Baulé its world outlook, the hierarchy inherent in nature and society. That is why it is leopard skin, power and strength, who closes the show opened by dancers with antelope skins. The Goli shows the different hierarchies, the difference between man and woman, jungle and village, chief and junior, that is to say the world I baulé in all its complexity.

The mask Kplekpleé del Goli is a lunar mask. It is presented under the male form Kplekpleé yassua (black) or female Kplekpleé bla (red) and always dance as a couple on the occasion of the funerals of the notables and also appear in playful celebrations. When she doesn't dance, she always stays out of the women's eyes. In dances his wearer, on a palm fiber garment, covers his back with an antelope skin on which he hits with a whip. On the ankles a bells or pieces of metal rhythm, when beating, dance steps and away the curses. The festival of Goli lasts, in principle a day, has the participation of the whole town and participate in dances different groups of masks.

Brown mask whose edge is stenched with triangular peaks.