Gelede dancers in Sakete (Benin) step onto the path to the sacred grove.
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Gelede dancers in Sakete (Benin) step onto the path to the sacred grove.
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Gelede dancers in Sakete (Benin) step onto the path to the sacred grove.
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Ewe people in Ghana. Dressed in honor of the bush spirit.
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Ewe people in Ghana. Dressed in honor of the bush spirit.
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Yoruba Gelede mask from Benin.
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Yoruba Egungun costumes in the Ancestors and Secret Society exhibition area.
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Nganga Briyumba of Madre Canasta, the Congo Nanà Buruku, deity of lagoons, swamps and the moon.

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Ancient putchu guinadji of the Kotoko in Cameroon and Chad. Such small bronze equestrian figures were used to protect against witchcraft and mental illness.
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Ancient putchu guinadji necklace the Kotoko in Cameroon and Chad. Such small bronze equestrian figures were used to protect against witchcraft and mental illness.
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The career of Sebastian: Roman bodyguard, plague saint of the Catholic Church, in the Afro-Brazilian syncretic religion Umbanda associated with Oxossi and icon of the queer scene.
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A very rare old hand-carved exu made of wood from the Quimbanda religion in Brazil.
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A look back. Full house at our cinema premiere of the Vodou Healer film. TV interview with Papa Joe.
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A look back. Full house at our cinema premiere of the Vodou Healer film.
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Zangbeto's appearance at the trade fair in Essen, organised by the SOA Museum.
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An SOA loan of a Nkisi Nkondi of the Bakongo from the Congo in the exhibition ‘Body. Cult. Religion.’ at the Archaeological Museum Münster.
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A bag of the Bulu Fong Ngui gorilla secret society from Cameroon.
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Macumba ceremony 1977 in brazil.
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