TitleMusicians and dancers participating in Tribute to the Ancestors ceremony on the Coney Island boardwalk.
Call NumberGORE_0052
Cite AsBob Gore photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
SummaryMusicians and dancers in the surf, participating in Tribute to the Ancestors, part of Brooklyn Arts Council’s Harborlore Festival, June 14, 2008 at Coney Island. Waterfront ceremony memorializing enslaved Africans who died at sea in their forced passage to the Americas. In the center is Baba Mpho playing a djembe drum.
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