Chicken Sacrifice
odd: label: General
content: Local Number: HSFA 1993.24.28
name: label: Collection Creator
content: University of California (System). Extension Media Center
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content: University of California Extension Media Center (EMC) film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (color sound; 250 feet)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film is the twelth in a series of films on African village life produced by the International Film Foundation. This film documents a chicken sacrifice among the Dogon people of the Mali highlands. The chicken's throat is cut, the blood is poured over a mound, the chicken is cleaned and cooked, and the "broth" is used to make a "dough" which is later eaten with the chicken meat.

Legacy Keywords: Schlenker, Hermann cameraman ; Africa