A recreational dance of the Dagbamba performed by men in women's dress, with waist rattles, smocks and feathered headgear, accompanied by lunga and gungon drums. Oral tradition traces its origin to a drought, when men danced to appeal for rain. It is now the best-known Dagbon dance outside Northern Ghana.
Baamaaya troupes perform at funerals and state durbars, the dancers' hip rattles marking the pulse.