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Ashura a children’s feast in Morocco

Ashura a children’s feast in Morocco. from old agricultural rituals to nowaday’s entertainment Jean-Pierre Rossie. Children’s practices during ashura.    making dolls    singing and playing music    collecting gifts    spraying water    playing with fire    children’s mascarade.

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Ashura a children’s feast in Morocco

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  1. Ashuraa children’s feast in Morocco from old agricultural rituals to nowaday’s entertainment Jean-Pierre Rossie

  2. Children’s practices during ashura    making dolls    singing and playing music    collecting gifts    spraying water    playing with fire    children’s mascarade

  3. Map of Morocco

  4. Tiznit: a town center within old walls

  5. Sidi Ifni: a small town on the Atlantic coast

  6. Ikenwen: a village where old and new mix

  7. women use this doll to ask for rain

  8. girls create their version of this doll

  9. children’s play during ashura

  10. ashura dolls made with sheepbones

  11. village girls still make their own dolls

  12. also using plastic dolls they make dresses for

  13. singing and making music for ashura

  14. the younger one starts …

  15. small drums: a traditional gift to children

  16. together with the reed flute

  17. local creativityand global toys

  18. collecting gifts

  19. spraying water

  20. but now the toy is everywhere the same

  21. the game remains

  22. the ashura fires

  23. making one’s own firework

  24. the imashar mascarade of the young men

  25. creating characters for the mascarade

  26. being a bearded cyclist with goggles

  27. or a wise old man

  28. I am so proud with this mask my father made

  29. PLAY, GAMES AND TOYS OFNORTH AFRICAN & SAHARAN CHILDREN www.sanatoyplay.org

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