Shirts laden with medicines, mirrors, leather amulets containing the spiritual power of a verse from the Qu’ran or a healing square, and other potent substances are only worn by hunters during public occasions such as funerals, community celebrations and other daytime spectacles. Such garments declare the extraordinary powers of the wearer, in part through such visual effects as the blinding glare of the sun reflecting off its mirrors. Mirrored attachments are particularly favored by hunters’ bards, men with healing abilities who sing tales of hunting successes, as they intensify the mysterious qualities of the shirt by catching light and alluding to the vital forces and spirits dealt with by hunters and their bards. Numu Tunkara wearing hunter's shirt. Fana, Mali. From Art from Africa: Long Steps Never Broke a Back by Pamela McClusky, p. 74.