";s:4:"text";s:4325:" Masks attend to honor the deceased and to verify that the spirit of the deceased merits admission into the world of ancestors.
Through them the community expresses joy or suffering, or simply fulfills duties to the memory of the ancestors.
Le Moré ou encore Mooré fait partie des grandes familles de langues que sont les langues Gur, Oti-volta et dans un sens plus large nigéro-congolaises.
It is a mistake to describe a "Nyonyosé tribe" or the "art of the Nyonyosé" because the Nyonyose do not exist outside Mossi society. All Nyonyose masks are worn with thick costumes made of the fiber of the wild hemp, Hibiscus cannabinus, In the old days only the northern Nyonyose in Yatenga and Kaya, and the eastern people around Boulsa allowed their masks to be photographed. Sculptures de Laongo Burkina Faso Retrieved 04/12/ 2006 from Tapsoba, Marie, interview on 04/03/2006. These two groups are generally fused but have internal subdivisions, each one having its own ruling family; they perform ceremonies and other important events. Où le Moré trouve t’il ses origines. En se reportant à une carte, il est facile de se rendre compte que le groupe mole-dagbane recouvre une aire géographique très étendue dans l'Ouest africain 1 . In: La région mossi appelée Yatenga comprend, du point de vue administratif, un vaste territoire ayant la forme d'un hexagone irrégulier et s'étendant du Nord- Est au Sud-Ouest, dans la partie septentrionale de la République de Haute- Volta, sur environ 27 300 km2.
The people in the southwest forbade photography because it did not conform to the Mask characters include Balinga, the Fulani woman; katre, the hyena; nyaka, the small antelope; Wan pelega, the large antelope, and many others.
