Central Africa, Upper Ubangi (Nzakara) -- Tonga Bondo Festival of the Ancestral Spirits
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2006.2.33; E00457
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen, Germany)
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content: Institut Für Den Wissenschaftlichen Filmen (IWF) Encyclopaedia Cinematographica film collection
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (33 minutes, color silent, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film: clan members are reunited to honor their departed ancestors with the Tonga Bondo festival. A procession takes the ancestral spirits to a central location in the village where they are ceremoniously placed on a bed of leaves and branches. There are anointings, invocations, gift-giving, and dances for the ancestors. Finally a meal is prepared and offered to the spirits as they are reinstated in their renewed sanctuary.
Legacy Keywords: Central African Republic ; Central Africa, Upper Ubangi ; Africa; Nzakara