As far as I can tell, the brikamo arrangement used by Los Muñequitos and AfroCuba is essentially the same as the Matanzas-style abakuá. If you are on Facebook, you can check out this video I shot of Los Muñequitos performing brikamo in 1992:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php ... 5772&savedI played abakuá bonkó in brikamo (in 2008) and the Matanceros present didn't object, or even lift an eyebrow.
Francisco Aguabella used a different arrangement on Mongo's
Afro Roots, but I have not encountered that version anywhere else. I don't think it's exactly accurate to call brikamo a "women's abakuá," although besides ritual cleansing, I don't know what the function of the dance is.
According to David Brown (
The Light Inside), brikamo is the ritual language of the abakuá. Ivor Miller (
Voice of the Leopard) concures, but says that the term also refers to "a funerary tradition maintained by the Calle family of Matanzas city . . . In colonial Cuba there was a Carabalí Bríkamo cabildo" p. 215.
-David