Touloulou Contents Description Origin Gallery See also References External links Navigation menu"Colored lenses, wigs and Camouflage Voices"Site de la Fédération des Festivals et Carnavals de GuyaneGuyane-guide : le site de la Guyane - Photos du carnavalun historique du carnaval Guyanaissite en flash du carnaval en GuyaneFaire de touloulou l'icône emblématique du carnaval universelCARNAVAL DE GUYANE. Le carnaval le plus long du monde.e
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The Touloulou is the most famous of the typical characters and the queen of Guianan carnival.
Contents
1 Description
2 Origin
3 Gallery
4 See also
5 References
6 External links
Description
The Touloulou is the queen of the carnival. It is a lady elegantly dressed from head to toe. They are normally women without an ounce of skin showing. She wears a petticoat, a balaclava, a Domino mask and long gloves. In order not to be recognized, women go so far as to put colored lenses, wigs and camouflage their voices.[1] They do not wear their usual perfume, buy pairs of shoes for the occasion that they will not return and do not move with their vehicle to remain anonymous.
They parade in the street and participate in masked balls.
There is also a men's suit called Tololo.
In the nightclubs, renamed occasionally "universities", it is the touloulous who invite men to dance. They can not refuse.
Origin
This typical figure of Guianan Creole culture represents the bourgeois women of the 19th-century, in their Sunday best, dressed in their heads to the feet.
Gallery
Touloulous parade during the parade of Kourou.
Touloulous at the 2007 Kourou Parade.
See also
- Carnival
- Carnival in French Guiana
- French Guiana
References
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External links
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- Site de la Fédération des Festivals et Carnavals de Guyane
- Guyane-guide : le site de la Guyane - Photos du carnaval
- un historique du carnaval Guyanais
- site en flash du carnaval en Guyane
- Faire de touloulou l'icône emblématique du carnaval universel
CARNAVAL DE GUYANE. Le carnaval le plus long du monde. (in French)
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