Something of what he had seen recently ..
The painting A.E.Yakovleva "Dance of the Cooley- Kut, Niamey " ( 1926 ), " ( sold at Sotheby's in 2010 for $ 1,458,736 .) Depicts the ancient dance of the Cooley- Kut, imitating the human sacrifices made when- then in this area : the priestess sharpens knives and preparing to bring the most beautiful girls of the tribe as a sacrifice to God of thunder and lightning Sango .
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