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Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo
FRANCE · 1969

Sigui 1969: The Cave of Bongo

Jean Rouch
Dogon culture ritual ceremony ethnographic documentation Mali oral tradition
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Synopsis

The third year of the Sigui ceremonies, celebrated every sixty years by the Dogons of the Bandiagara cliffs, Mali, takes place in the village of Bongo.

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