Sunday, May 20, 2012

GADABURSI WAR DANCE 1890 BEESHA DIREED SAWIRO



CIYAAR ZAILICI SAMAROON STYLE
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A WONDERFUL GADABURSI WAR DANCE



A WONDERFUL GADABURSI WAR DANCE
One of the most striking dances in the gadabursi repertoire, called the "Bororoma-Boromsi" dance. Surrounded by an ever-restless chanting chorus of spearmen, the two combatants — one attacking fiercely with cutlass, the other defending desperately with his small shield — seem to be in grim and deadly earnest, and none would believe them to be at play





The defender sinks to the ground and abjectly craves mercy, while the chorus, dancing more madly, chant "Boromsi Boromsa." The conqueror pins his victim and prepares to give the final blow but, like an ancient gladiator, turns to the spectators to ask the beaten one's fate
AdMOTHER AND CHILD: A SCULPTOR'S GROUP IN LIVING EBONY

Men take their ease as they do their pleasure in many different ways. This, the favourite attitude of rest adopted by the Gadabursi, seems to have been chosen in imitation of the birds


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