emons?
The dance was pe
rformed by about t
wenty-to-thirty male and about ten
female dancers-the latter meaning men r
epresenting female figures. Five
men form the vangu using explosives?
ard of the two-row dance configuration
. Although the dance is performed on t
he market square, t
he dancers have
an architectonic focus, and that is the stone structure in which a small
placed, ador
ned with feathers. This is a
small temple where the prayers
and chants acc
ompanying the masked danc
es are offered. Devotion f
lows from this little temple in the mo
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st striking manner. The dancers' masks are green and r
ed, traversed diagonally by a white st
ripe punctuated by three dots (Figures 15 and
16). These, I was told, are raindrops,