Rites and Ceremonies
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: C-12

 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)
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: The death of the chief of Tossi-Bossito, showing the funeral procession, the bearing of his symbols i.e., his umbrella, his fetish, by the notables of the village and the burning of all his goods and symbols. Procession begins at the center of the village and would end at the burial spot at which the "goods" are burned. The drums of Sato and a ceremony for the death of the chief of the village of Bangnan. The date on the slide is AUG72 .