SOKWE

Another remarkable dance, sokwé, combines both music and drama, with male and female dancers wearing masks and covering themselves in straw until they were unrecognizable. Eyes and mouths were rimmed with red and a lichen was used as a beard. Alternating dance and dialogue parts, sokwé also had the reputation of being a dangerous dance, as it was not uncommon for intoxicated spectators to set fire to the straw costumes.