Nak Bejjen

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Nak Bejjen

Creator

Khadija Saye

Photographer · 1992–2017

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Date
2018
Medium
Hand-printed silkscreen print
Culture
Gambian / British
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
5b5e669b-5943-4b48-88ce-eea471dddaa1

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A silkscreen enlargement from a tintype depicting a self-portrait of Saye with her head bowed in a profile view. A healer holds a cow horn, "nak bejjen" in the Senegambian language, Wolof, to the nape of Saye's neck. Smoke billows around the object. This is a ritual to suck the impurities out from a person's body in Gambian spirituality and culture.

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