baga 06 headdress

Banda also called Kumbaruba has a long headdress composed of the Jaw of a crocodile, face of a human with elaborated braided coiffure, horn of the antelope, body of serpent and a tail of a chameleon. in the second half of the 20th century it was danced purely for entertainment, the dance is astonishingly vigorous with various dancers taking turns under the headdress weight . each village may have two or three headdresses that would be danced simultaneously.