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

Pam Kuso Kar (Breaking Pam's Vases)

January 01, 1974 | 12 min

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.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Naomi Scott

Pam Sambo Zima

Share on social media

More Like This

Yenendi de Ganghel (Rain Dance at Ganghel)
Germaine chez elle
Hommage à Marcel Mauss. Germaine Dieterlen
Ainu Puri
Color-Blind
Encounters in Yakutia
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Drums from the Past
Circumcision
Ainu Neno An Ainu
The Bounty Hunter of Mongolia
Attiuk
Moana
The Bapst Brothers, Carriers
Ghostland: The View of the Ju'Hoansi
Asante Market Women
Horendi
Photo Souvenir
Come Back, Sebastiana
Germaine et ses copains