Image Title:
Dance cooley kut, Niamey
Note:
"The painting depicts the ancient dance-coolies Kuta imitating human sacrifice, once taken in this area: the priestess sharpens knives and preparing to bring the most beautiful girls in the tribe sacrifice to the god of thunder and lightning Sango" [Wikipedia]
Artist:
Aleksandr Yevgen'yevich Yakovlev (1887-1938)
Image Source:
Wikipedia
Subject:
Dance - Cooley Kut - Human Sacifice - Priestess - Africa - Sango - Sacrifice - Ancient Dance
Date:
1926
Rights:
Public Domain
Image:
SA-Dan-10
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