Tyi Wara

Taiwara The largest country in West Africa is Mari. Mary borders with the other seven states. In addition to the fact that the left wing is much smaller than the right wing, the shape of Mari seems a little butterfly. The country's largest area is the Northwest Territories. This area spreads to the Sahara desert and is almost completely dry desert. The center of the country is known as the Sahel. The life in this area is the annual flooding cycle of the Niger River. There is the largest amount of water between August and November.

Symbols and rituals and masks of other Bambara society are also closely related to daily agricultural activities. Comomasks represent hyenas, great workers of the soil, and guardians of life. Tiwara Mask represents a wonderful existence of half of human beings and half of animals and taught men how to cultivate in the past. During seeding and growing season, Tiwara Antelope Mask represents the spirit of forest and water, ensuring the fertility of the fields and humans. Art is a glorious man in general. Presence of things carefully carved with valuable materials like gold, silver, ivory usually indicates the existence of the ruling class, the remaining wealth, and the funds needed to hire craftsmen.

As in these examples, wooden headdress engraved in antelope shape refers to a mythical cultural hero Ci Wara, a god that is considered half-human half-antelope. The tradition of oral tradition of Bamana owes to the understanding of human agricultural methods and the earth, animals and plants in Chihara. From the 19th century to the early 20th century, Ci Wara has been quoted and respected by members of the male agricultural association (also known as ci wara) throughout the village to admire the farmers' skills of success. These performances feature a pair of dancers wearing sculptured headdress. One represents a male antelope and the other represents a woman. They did have a stick in their hands as we did when the mythical Ci Wara taught people to plant seeds first.

Members of the tji wara community use hats to express the image of the antelope and teach men how to train mythical characters. The word tji means "work", the word wara means "animal", so "work animals". Antelope and vertical or horizontal antelope. So far, the purpose of the tji wara association was to promote cooperation among all members of the community to ensure successful crops. However, recently, the concept of Timwara's Bambara is associated with a good farmer concept, pretending to be a fish of agriculture is regarded as a beast of agriculture. Bunbara Sponsor Farm competes with the place that tji wara pretender does. Always running together in pairs of men and women, the combination of those pretending to be Antelope talks about infertility and agriculture