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Titre :
Petit-Paris district, Basse Terre.
Auteur :
Lo Calzo, Nicola (1979-....)Lieu de la prise de vue :
Basse-Terre
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Type :
Photographie - Couleur
Description :
Preparation of the “Mas-a-kongo déportaisyon”, Voukoum group The phenomenon of the reinterpretation of the past and the African origin is clearly present in the case of the «Mas-a -Kongo». This mask consists of coating the body and the face with a mixture of sugarcane syrup and soot collected in the chimneys of the sugar factories. Once again here, the elements have lost a part of their original meaning (referring to the cult of the bear or the savage man in the Indo-European carnival), to assume a new symbolism derived from the local context. Indeed, the Congo Mask is presented as symbolizing the African origin of the Caribbean people, because of its exacerbated black color. On the other hand, this image reflects of very occidental and colonial vision of the African savage. Nevertheless, this “Congo mask”, with its ambiguous origins, is considered the strongest symbol of the Antillean people’s Negro origins.
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The “whippers” during the «charge», Voukoum Group The “whippers” are the «Mas» sentinels, those who open the “charge” with the clacking sound of the their long whip, which handiness is only equaled by the deafening sound it produces.
Auteur :
Lo Calzo, Nicola (1979-....)Lieu de la prise de vue :
Basse-Terre
Extrait de :
Cham, la mémoire vivante
Type :
Photographie - Couleur
Description :
The whip liberates energy and symbolizes the physical punishments inflicted to the slaves by their masters. Ahead of the group, the whippers move the crowd aside, by swirling their instrument in a physically controlled expertise they learn at young age. In fact, it is the favorite game of the children who try the whip, it becomes an initiatory ritual when they’re teenagers, and only pass it when the whip “clacks” like the ones used by the adults. Petit Paris district, Basse Terre
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