Rites and Ceremonies
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: A-8

 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: Republic of Benin -- Photographs
label: Topic
content: Ritual and celebration -- 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: 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 .