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Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases) (1974)

Name: Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1974-01-01
Duration: 12 min
Rating: 9.0

Documentary

Overview

In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard, the followers from the possession cult symbolically break the dead priest's ritual vases and cry for the deceased while dividing up the clothes of the divinities.

Duration

12 min

Rating

⭐ 9.0 / 10

Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 01, 1974

Languages

French

Production

CNRS Images, Comité du film Éthnographique