African mask

Mossi

Material: wood/kaolin/pigment

Importation : Burkina Faso

Réf : MOS04

H 38cm x L23cm

Weight : 550Gr

Shipping : 48H

Description

The Mossi are the largest ethnic group living in Burkina Faso. They are a people divided into two ethnic groups. Political power resides in nakomze, whose ancestors invaded the region in the 15th century and has submitted the different indigenous groups living there. These difficulties have arisen tengabisi a heterogeneous population whose kinship groups have provided the religious leaders of the Mossi to date. North, one encounters a region of desert steppes of the Sahel and the south, an area of savanna-field, which gives way to forest land in the deep south. Much of the population lives on agriculture and livestock. They grow millet, sorghum, maize, sesame, peanuts, and indigo. Cotton, introduced by the French during the occupation, is also cultivated on large tracts of land.