About This Item

  • TitleMusicians and dancers participating in Tribute to the Ancestors ceremony on the Coney Island boardwalk.
  • Call NumberGORE_0054
  • Cite AsBob Gore photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryMusicians and dancers 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. Woman in foreground doing a backbend. Parachute jump amusement ride in the background.
  • Date2008
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : color ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genrecolor photographs
  • NoteTitle supplied by cataloger
  • CreatorGore, Bob (Robert L.)
  • SubjectAfrican Americans ; Rites and ceremonies ; Slave trade--History
  • CollectionBob Gore photograph collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • Copyright OwnerGore, Robert, Jr.