The Gambia’s Kankurang dance is a Mandinka masquerade that is dressed in leaves, bark and ochre-colored tree fibre with a machete in one hand and a stick in the other. His whole body is often dyed deep orange using vegetable dyes.
Among the Mandinka of the Gambia today there are two basic forms of costumes for these masked dancers, the Fara (shredded or torn bark from the camel foot tree) and the Fito (leaf) Kankurang.