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Haitian drapo (ritual flag 1)

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Haitian drapo (ritual flag 1)
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NVNJS1
 
Creator Naglak, Matthew
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Haitian Vodou drapo are used in ceremonies to honor the spirits. They have also become a major tourist art attraction. The spirit Gran Bwa is portrayed as half human, half tree, with arms as branches and feet as roots. Two ason (ritual rattles) frame either side of him along with healing leaves. Gran Bwa is a spirit of healing, plants, and sacred medicine.
 
Subject Arts and Humanities
 
Date 2022-02
 
Contributor Luo, Jiebei
Haitian artist Ronald Edmond
Daniels, Kyrah
 
Type Digital 3d Models - full and trimmed (obj+mtl+jpg), photographs (jpg), Metashape project, blender project and final export (blend and glb)
 
Source 33 photographs (jpg)