Rites and Ceremonies
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: N-9

 G 2 YRB IL 72
name: label: Photographer
content: Livingstone, Ivan
label: Collection Photographer
content: Livingstone, Ivan
place: label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ritual and celebration -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Republic of Benin -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
creator: label: Photographer
content: Livingstone, Ivan
culture: label: Culture
content: Edo (African people)
label: Culture
content: Fon (African people)
label: Culture
content: Fon (African people)
label: Culture
content: Yoruba (African people)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Ivan Livingstone photographs
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A ceremony for the initiation of a Babalawo (a diviner) into the cult of Ifa, the cult of divination. These slides were taken in the village of the Hollis or sometimes called Ahouris. This is in the swampland of southern Dahomey. The date on the slide is MAI73 .