The Art of the Weya Women

C6te d'Ivoire, by commissioning a mask and remaining throughout the six-day period needed to photograph (over 500 shots), mark the timing, and describe each phase of Boti's work procedures to completion. The Fischers summarize each day's work in easy-to-read German. Boti, who incorporates colorful genre scenes in figural groups set over the smiling face mask (sauli) worn by entertainment dancers, has become the mask carver most popular with local people. He does not cater to the antiquities trade, although he is sought by the occasional collector of folk art. Some of his explanations of figural scenes on his masks, translated into French by a Guro man, resemble imaginative folk tales. The scene Boti chose for this commis

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