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Yoruba Performance
- 1990 ----- color ----- 25 min ----- vhs
- Filmed among the Ijebu-Yoruba, this video documents a series of performances including: 1) Young female initiates dancing for Olomitutu, the deity of "cool waters"; 2) Egungun masking in honor of twins; 3) Egungun masking for the collective ancest ors during an annual rally; 4) Dancing of elders during an Oshugbo festival; 5) Ifa divination ceremony--Itefa; 6) Agemo masking honoring the founders of towns and markets; 7) Orisha initiation ceremony--marking the heads of devotees; 8) Jigbo masking for forest spirits; and 9) Okosi--boat regatta on the lagoon.
- Topics: (Africa, Anthropology: Cultural, Art: Tribal, Ethnomusicology)
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