Alikali devil masqueraders
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content: SL-18-15

 E 2 SIL 18.15 CDC 79
label: Local Note
content: Selgem EE13907100
label: Local Note
content: Slide included in the Christopher DeCorse Collection.
label: Local Note
content: The slide was taken in the Guinea Coast region.
label: Local Note
content: A photographic print resides in the collection.
label: Local Note
content: Series Reference: 18.15.
label: Local Note
content: Frame value is 21.
label: Local Note
content: Slide No. E 2 SIL 18.15 CDC 79
name: label: Photographer
content: DeCorse, Christopher R.
label: Collection Photographer
content: DeCorse, Christopher R.
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Sierra Leone
topic: label: Topic
content: Masked dance -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Masquerades
creator: label: Photographer
content: DeCorse, Christopher R.
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content: Christopher DeCorse photographs
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content: Christopher DeCorse photographs / Sierra Leone
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-1681
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Slides (photographs)
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content: Color slides
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content: Color slides
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Donor notes read: ""Alikali" - Child devil, Kabala, Christmas, 1979. A different child devil; note the kid using the oil pan for a drum. "ta/la/be" = devil-Krio. Alakali or "jolly" seems to be used by Koranko. The child devils I saw were mostly Kornako boys. There were no girls involved in the dancing. The date on the slide is FEB 80." A performance includes two or three dances by the devil, accompanied by a group of child musicians playing a variety of handcrafted instruments and a chorus singing songs drawn from the masking group's repertoire. These performances are sponsored by urban associations that are multiethnic and segregated by sex but not by religion or social status. [Jeanne Cannizzo, "The Alikali Devils of Sierra Leone: Play, Performance, and Social Commentary," Appears in Playful Performers, Routledge, 2006.]