Egun Pasoda ("turning around cloth") Costume
2001
Egun Pasoda ("turning around cloth") costumes are used to enact a complete transformation. Whirling cloth around them, and parading with legs stepping high, the masqueraders are playful and agile. As the drums accelerate, they bend forward, and peel their backs off, tuck them under their legs and eventually turn completely inside out, revealing another entire costume. Masterful performers enact this transformation right before the spectators' eyes without exposing their human form beneath, and thereby confirm that beings from beyond human limits are present.
Appliqued broadcloth, crocheted cotton, beads, and cowry shells
General Acquisition Fund
2001.34