Long panels of openwork carving showing human figures, animals, and abstract designs were carried in one initiation dance, while the frontal bones of human skulls, which had been over-modeled, painted, and embellished with hair and beards, were worn as masks in other dances.
Performance contexts include potlatch feasts, initiation rituals, seasonal dance ceremonies, shamanic rituals, and gambling events.
In 2005 the Gule Wamkulu a ritual dance performed at initiation ceremonies, funerals, and other important occasions and the Vimbuza Healing Dance were both designated UNESCO Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
Traditional music is performed in contexts such as religious festivals related to the Christian calendar, initiation rites, life-cycle events, dance dramas commemorating the Spanish conquest, and patriotic holidays.
The constitutive features of a mystery society were common meals, dances, and ceremonies, especially initiation rites.
They specialized in elaborate masked ceremonies for the initiation of boys and less elaborate circle dances for girls' puberty rites.
Traditional music and dances can be seen at initiation rites, rituals, marriage ceremonies and celebrations.
Among them were early forced marriages associated with the apostolic religion sects, all night prayer meetings which resulted in absenteeism, post adolescent initiation ceremonies which were accompanied by traditional dances (zvigure) and traditional rituals performed in most rural communities.
For his initiation after joining the Owls, he sang and danced to the Spice Girls hit 'Wannabe' and, thanks to his new team-mate Liam Palmer, became something of an internet sensation in the process.
As with the Makonde, the masks may be worn at makishi dances (held at the new moon), in initiation ceremonies, or for public entertainments.
Performance contexts include healing, initiation rites such as the Kuna Girl's Puberty ceremony, funerals, collective ritual dances, lullabies, and social gatherings.
