Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)

Pam Kuso Kar (Briser les poteries de Pam)

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.

Production

CNRS Images, Comité du film Éthnographique