TitleMusicians and dancers participating in Tribute to the Ancestors ceremony at Coney Island.
Call NumberGORE_0058
Cite AsBob Gore photograph collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
SummaryParticipant 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. Seated man wearing Marcus Garvey shirt, carrying camera and elaborately carved walking stick, smoking corncob pipe.
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