Disease and organs treated by a vodoo practitioner in Benin. Acrylic paintings, 199-.

Date:
[between 1990 and 1999?]
Reference:
750000i
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Description

Salvaged in August 2010, the six panels formed the walls of the shack of a vodoo (voodoo, vodou, vodun) practitioner in the town of Adjarra. The town is about one hour's drive from Porto Novo, the capital city of Benin, on a mud road towards the Nigerian border. The population attends a flourishing vodoo market where medical practitioners have dried animal parts, carved statuettes and other fetishistic items available for medicinal purposes. The paintings advertise the diseases and parts of the body which the practitioner offers to cure through sorcery and animal sacrifices that call upon the spirit world

Publication/Creation

[between 1990 and 1999?]

Physical description

6 paintings : acrylic on wood ; wood of each painting approximately 122 x 66 cm

Contents

1. "Gono"
2. "Male genital organ", "Female genital organ"
3. "Breast cancer"
4. "Syphilis"
5. "Eye", "Fistula", "Sore"
6. "Pregnant woman"

Creator/production credits

On verso of no. 5, painted name: "Anan Antoine"

Reference

Wellcome Collection 750000i

Type/Technique

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Subjects

Holdings

  • six paintings

Where to find it

  • "Gono"

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    750000i.1

  • "Male genital organ", "Female genital organ"

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    750000i.2

  • "Breast cancer"

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    750000i.3

  • "Syphilis"

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    750000i.4

  • "Eye", "Fistula", "Sore"

    LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    750000i.5

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