Rites and Ceremonies
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: A-5

 G 2 FON 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)
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: Initiates would place their hands in the corn paste and then hold their hands over the flames of the fire This is the graduation exercises of the cult of Dan, the god of continuity. Ceremony photographed in 1972-73 in the village of Ketonou, in old Dahomey. There are approximately 50 negatives in both black and white and in color of this ritual. The date on the slide is JUL73 .