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The Tribal Eye: Behind The Mask (wood carving excerpt)

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Uploaded by on Dec 23, 2009

This amazing excerpt reveals in great detail how the Dogon people in Mali approach wood carving. Clip borrowed from part one the seven-part series "The Tribal Eye" by David Attenborough. (original airdate: 1975)

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  • its fucking perfect...i wanna live in a tribe!!

  • Don't you love it? "The blacksmith has been commissioned to carve a mask. With him has come the head of the Mask Society, the Master of Masks." We need to bring some of that old tradition and respect back to life!

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  • Goodness me, the precision and detail that they are able to do with such a large tool is outrageous!

  • looks like a easter island moi

    wonderfull

    vid

  • I see your collection. I like it.Last year I made documenatary film on mask.If you add these Indian mask to your collection I feel honour. to watch my film .....on my website creative07.webs.com

  • I see your collection. I like it.Last year I made documenatary film on mask.If you add these Indian mask to your collection I feel honour. to watch my film .....

  • Wow. That is skill right there. The mask and statue look perfect already!

  • OMG. carving with the same precision

    their ancestors did.with such a tool

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