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with Indigenous Songbird and Fern |
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In
most traditional African cultures the person wearing the ritual mask conceptually
loses his or her human life and turns into the spirit represented by the
mask itself. They become a medium between the community and the dead,
or nature-related spirits, often bearing a resemblance to the western
idea of theater. |
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