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Description

1. 1 streaming video file (NTSC) (15 min.) : sd., col.

Summary

1. Filmed in the village of Gueoua (or Seba). Having recovered from their circumcisions, which take place at puberty, teenaged girls perform dances with the low chairs they have borrowed for use after their operations. Their caregivers join in the dances at the end of the tape.

Series statement

1. Encyclopaedia cinematographica ; E 1553

Subject

1. Dance -- Côte d'Ivoire
2. Côte d'Ivoire -- Rites and ceremonies
3. Television. Gere (Westafrika, Elfenbeinküste)
4. Dan (African people) -- Dances
5. Initiation dances
6. Puberty rites

Call number

1. *MGZIDF 1644

Note

1. Filmed in 1968. Produced and distributed by the Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film, Göttingen, Germany.
2. English title: Gere [also spelled Guere], West Africa, Ivory Coast; "Little stool dance" of the just-excised maidens. For a descriptive pamphlet in German, with English summary, see: *MGS (General) Encyclopaedia cinematographica.

Access (note)

1. Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.

Local note

1. Former call number: *MGZIC 9-2342

Title

1. Gere (Westafrika, Elfenbeinküste) [electronic resource] : "Stühlchentanz" der frisch beschnittenen Mädchen.

Imprint

1. 1968.

Series

1. Encyclopaedia cinematographica ; E 1553

Restricted access

1. Patrons can access streaming video file online only on site at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Funding

1. Preservation of this video was supported by a donation from Lynn Garafola.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Local subject

1. Television. Gere (Westafrika, Elfenbeinküste).
2. Dan (African people) -- Dances.

Local subject

1. Initiation dances.
2. Puberty rites.

Research call number

1. *MGZIDF 1644