01 January 1953 Factual 19 mins
"Mammy Water" is mother sea, source of food. Jean Rouch filmed this short documentary in the Gulf of Guinea, in Ghana, where is held a colorful festival, the Chama, in which the participants offer cassava, gin and tobacco to the spirits of water and sacrifice a white ox to thank them and express their gratitude and respect.
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La pêche et le culte de la mer Trailer
France 01 January 1953
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Purchase: Mammy Water is a pidgin English name for a local water goddess worshipped by the Ibibio Ijaw and Igbo ...
Fragmento de la película Mammy Water realizada por Jean Rouch en 1953.
The Story of Mammy Water (Mermaid
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