Tyi-Wara cult: elegant sculptures and African mysteries
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The Tyi-Wara festival is a cult celebrating the invention of agriculture and the mysteries of sexuality. To ensure that the rains fall on the fields, certain rites must be performed. The elegant openwork sculptures emerge from their sanctuary with their long fiber coverings. As an object-sculpture, the Tyi-Wara is world-famous and has become one of Africa's icons. Proprietary dances are performed by pairs of Tyi-Wara. It would be fatal for an assistant to pass between two masks. The dance evokes the mating of sacred principles. The rain will come.
H. 110cm.
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