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kristina [she/her]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago

Traditional Masquerade in Burkina Faso

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Traditional Masquerade in Burkina Faso

kristina [she/her]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months ago
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    How tall can we make an emoji

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Tall enough long-corbyn

  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    how they aren’t afraid to break their necks when nodding accidentally banana-duck

    • ClathrateG [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      There’s a reason the Burkinabe are known as the upright people

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    That’s really cool

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    Dang, the white paint on those masks is so bright, it looks like somebody fucked up their renderer instead of anything real. Good job, mask painters.

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      The photographer set up a light to the left of frame to make it pop

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    I can’t be the only one!

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      Fucking love that movie

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      Are you German?

      • JimLarkin [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        Irish

  • vanDerVaartBlackenedRanch [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Reminds me of the Yoruba Eyo tradition, but purple

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyo_festival

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      It looks so fun

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    Sick!

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    somehow looks similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busójárás which is interesting, given the great distance

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      The human urge to dress up as a hairy horned thing

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        who knew? must be one of those basic urges like wanting to live near a river and some trees

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      There’s a version of this everywhere! India has it too.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kummattikali

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulikali

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