Staff for a Champion Cultivator
Senufo
Description
This staff honors the champion cultivator who suffers for the sake of the community. Throughout the cultivating season, staff bearers walk behind the young competitors who hoe from dawn till dusk to the sound of music and to promises of a beautiful bride through a marriage arranged by the community elders.
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