Archive record · Historical photographs & visual records
Medium and drummers, 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: "Bakatue Ritual, Elmina; evening of June 30, 1986 and morning of July 1, 1986; medium and drummers. 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.1993-028-0564
Collection: Christopher DeCorse photographs