Red and Yellow Dagomba Tribe African Mask
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With solemn dignity he opens his mouth to speak. A soothsayer his word carries great weight among the Dagomba people of northern Ghana. Such masks are used by spiritualists to apprehend thieves who break into the homes of others artisan Sefah Mohammed explains. If a house is burgled the people call a spiritualist who upon wearing this mask can identify the culprit. He names his design Booka which means soothsayer in the Hausa language.
