Society of Mandjous preparing the Kan dance in Bangwa

Dancers have feathers on their heads and white painted marks on the skin. Seeds or fetish are on their belt and they have big raffia strings and antelope horns as dance accessory.; The Kan is taking place every two years ; it is danced only in few societies. Theoretically, every society dance the Kan with the youth of the country (the one who doesn't dance has to give a goat). At the origin, the dance marked the end of the initiation time (Kan would mean the blood alliance). Ngu-jan is the year when the young girls are locked in and got fatter. Ngu-kan is the next year when these dances happen. The young man who has to dance for the first time has to sleep the night in someone's house who will give him the kan. On the morning, he goes on the fence, under which there is taro. He has to eat it. Dance figures are for two people face to face. The chief who has been asked on the meaning of the dance, said that it was for the fecondity of the country (crop and children). From 1945 to 1959, Daniel Broussous was the head doctor of the protestant hospital of Bangwa, set up by the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical mission society) in the south of the region Bamileke in 1935. Broussous took many photographs documenting the art, the architecture, the traditions and the daily-life of Bamileke chieftainships. He also made several films.

舞者头戴羽饰，皮肤绘有白色纹饰。腰带上缀有种子或物神（fetish），并以宽大的拉菲草绳与羚羊角作为舞蹈配饰。Kan仪式每两年举办一次，仅在少数社群中展演。理论上，所有社群均应与本国青年共同举办Kan仪式，未参与展演的社群需赠予山羊一头。该仪式最初标志着成年启蒙阶段的结束——Kan一词意为‘血盟’。Ngu-jan指年轻女子被隔离并接受增肥调养的年份；Ngu-kan则为次年举办该舞蹈仪式的年份。首次参与展演的青年需在负责传授Kan仪式的人家中过夜，次日清晨前往围栏处，围栏下方种植有芋头，青年必须食用该芋头。舞蹈队形为双人面对面站位。当被问及该舞蹈的寓意时，酋长表示其旨在促进社群的作物丰产与子嗣繁衍。1945年至1959年间，丹尼尔·布鲁苏（Daniel Broussous）担任邦瓦（Bangwa）新教医院的首席医师。该院由巴黎福音传教团（Société des missions évangéliques de Paris）于1935年在巴米莱克（Bamileke）地区南部设立。布鲁苏拍摄了大量照片，记录了巴米莱克酋长领地的艺术、建筑、传统与日常生活，同时还制作了多部影片。