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Feature film — 1974

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

9.00h 12mDocumentary

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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Director: Jean Rouch

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