08
May
Bògòlanfini
During the most important transitional periods of their lives—entering adulthood, before marriage, after childbirth and finally as a burial shroud, Bambara women of Mali wrap themselves in the ritual cloth—the bògòlanfini. Derived from the terms bògòlan, meaning, 'made from mud', and fini, meaning 'cloth', the mud cloth is an artful...