Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Start of Bakatue Ritual, Elmina
1986
Africa; Ghana
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.
Donor notes read: "Start of Bakatue Ritual, Elmina; chief and son; evening of June 30, 1986. The date on the slide is AUG 86.".
- Collection
- Christopher DeCorse photographs
- Archival grouping
- Christopher DeCorse photographs / Ghana
- Catalog date
- 1986
- Recorded places
- Africa; Ghana
- Cataloged creator or photographer
- DeCorse, Christopher R
- Recorded subjects
- Ritual and celebration -- Photographs; Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
- Format and extent
- 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
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Sources & collection details
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-20
Catalog reference: EEPA.1993-028, Item EEPA.1993-028-0553
Collection: Christopher DeCorse photographs