Encyclopedia of African Religion

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Poro Society 533

Painted cloth costume worn by Senufo Poro society masquerader.Similar cloths were also worn by hunters.The designs,regarded
as protective,are painted onto locally woven narrow strip cloth using green paint made from boiled leaves,then outlined with a
mud solution.Senufo,Ivory Coast.


Source: Werner Forman/Art Resource, New York.

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