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Korhogo (Mud Cloth): Senufo, Ivory Coast
Using simple tools, men make fine line drawings of human and animal forms on coarsely spun, narrow-woven cotton strips sewn together to form the large hanging. Their "paint" may be brown or black fermented mud or modern pigments which they eir homes. The designs relate to paintings that decorated ritual houses in years past.
The artists take free reign in creating the stylized human, animal, bird and snake forms, some relating to costumed dancers. When entering a Korhogo village, the visitor is met with hundreds of these drawings attached to mud-brick walls and spread on the ground. Today they are made for traders and tourists.