Dogon country : Dama at Kamba (plateau) May 2013

film maker Serou Dolo Masked dance performances are held on the occasion of funerary rites. These rites take place in three phases : the burial, the funeral and the Dama. The Dama marks the end of mourning and the passage of the soul of the deceased to the land of the ancestors (prior to the Dama the souls of the recently dead roam about the bush). The masks will help the dead find their way to the hereafter. The Dama takes place around June and concerns all the men who have passed away since the previous