1. Ashura a 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 creativity and 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

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