Ritual Art: a Key to the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Bambara sculpture is a ritual object, in fact one of the dramatis personae of a ritual drama.The Civara, as it is called, is carried on the head during the ritual dance as a token of the presence of the mythical antilope which brought agriculture to the Bambara.Besides the male Civara there is also a female one, and in their dance, the two of t