(top) A mother binding her baby’s head, Kandrian, New Britain, Papua New Guinea, 1930s
(bottom) Skull, ancient Peru
Source: Pitt Rivers Museum Body Arts | Head shaping: lengthening
Tata Frank Interview on Palo Mayombe - Part 1 (by Panama Slim)
Tata Frank Interview on Palo Mayombe - Part 2 (by Panama Slim)
Tata Frank Interview on Palo Mayombe - Part 3 (by Panama Slim)
My Godfather Shloma Rosenberg Afolabí Awoyoyomí’s (iba’ye) crowning Orisha Yemoja! I have never before or since seen a more beautiful altar for an Orisha. I miss Yemoja Assesu and Shloma (iba’ye) so much! <3
The level of detail on this Oju Yemoja is stunning. The mazo was so heavy! And Yemoja’s tinaja is handmade and rests on top of another tinaja, also handmade, which is inside a large bowl full of plates from the 23 priests Shloma (iba’ye) crowned before he died. On top of her are two crowns (I remember three, though?), between which are holding up the gorgeous cloth that makes her cape in this photograph. In the lower left of the photograph is, I believe, Otin, a rare Orisha who is the servant of Yemoja.
Source: Curimbando
Photography from African Image by South African photographer and art director, Sam Haskin.
(via African Ancestry)
(via Parade in Matanzas, Cuba)
