Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases) (1974)
• January 1st, 1974 • 0h 12min
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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.
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