Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: CHRISTOPH, Henning
Event Date: 1975-04
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.058587

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; stamped: Photo and Copyright by / Henning Christoph / 43 Essen / Feuerbachstrasse 5//7 / Germany / Tel.: (0201) 73 11 27 + 79 80 89 / Volksbank Essen 395 070 / Postscheckkonto Essen 1066 29-438 / NEG. NR C4605//20A [number handwritten]; typed label: C 4605//20A … Kumasi, GHANA in April 1975 … The / Ghanaians have taken bits and pieces of all the world / religions, and incorportated them into their own repe- / toire. Here an Ashanti priestess performs animalistic / rites on a shrine based on Islamic models and crowned / with a Christian cross.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: GHANA / RELIGION
Retouching: N