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Women In The Dogon Tribe

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The Dogon tribe believes that women must be over power by men but men still need them. Since men were known to be more arrogant and dictatorial and had complete power of women which allowed them to have a secured over the women as they wear the women mask that give them terrorize for the men. This made men take on the roles of women and they do all the hard labor for women. There mask look like the depicts a woman’s head with beauty. It was known as the Satimbe Mask which it presents for the women. Then it is made out of fibers from the red hibiscus plant so she cans hind herself and frightens the Dogon men. “In return, the men confiscated the woman 's fibers. The woman was given the title "Sister of the Masks" or Satimbe, a reference to the
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