Manuscript/Mixed Material Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937
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Image 1 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 AFC 2004004 120246 The Alan Lomax Collection Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 2 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 American Folklife Center Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection AFC 2004004 folder 120246 field work Haiti 19361937field notesField notebook 5 April 1937 Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 3 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 Notebook 5 Haiti 1937 Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 4 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 The tambours Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at crowdlocgov- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 5 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 Candjo Before Occupation Polka Mazurk Quadrille FranÃais Meringue ContreDance SopranoPiano Piano orchestra Guitar came with the occupation from SD Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 6 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 RP typical points Djobolo Bosu Agoà Juda o nommez nom niou M quitle petite moin la cay Juda o pouler naus do li Juda o devieve toundla _________________ Ogoun Fevaille the widely...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 7 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 dangereuse pitit pas mouvi the lois franc protect them Ti Tilanto Linto vivre dangereux Souvent un garcon vivi maijin poignette moin Ma we on dangereux Tlinto loi petro fie Ti Jean Petro...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 8 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 They all serve in their mothers homeport regularly because your mother is more too you than your father She feel for you different Sometimes give gifts in the fathers place doesnt want...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 9 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 If I baptize a womans Breville Boco Coco M child she is my commieve I am her compive I cannot Germine Coco M marry her or her children si in besoin societee...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 10 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 To make accasan you crack the corn cook it with water let it settle over night after mashing it throws off the surface water and cools with more adding sirop or sucre...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 11 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 All wangas have loi or spirits in them Mait Cajou Mait Cimitiene all Pitro loi to kill This houngan calls the loi feeds them tells them to go The A wanga can...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 12 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 someone gives him poison he vomits the poison cant stay on his stomach A powder a poison You buy a snake a piece of skin of snake remove the bones and powder...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 13 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 Pive souaune The wake Burial next day 3 days after burial prayers start w nite for 8 days on the night of 8th day you give derniere prieuve you give manger mort...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 14 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 mother his granmother his granfather when you go into mourning 18 months for mothers 12 m for fathers 18 m for godmother 12 m for godfather afterwards you hang on Sunday Friday...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 15 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 The ceremony of Friday Apr 2 1937 Portau Prince around the corner from St Annes The family is from Grand Goave The mans father was obligated to give a manger loi but...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 16 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 The peanuts corn were parched first the houngan a Grand Goave man after throwing a grain 1 2 3 4 in each direction con Ãa gave us one R said Loi coienbÃ...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 17 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 clearing the furn out of the house and cleaning it and making everything ready A manger loi seems to be a difficult and burdensome business and everyone is somewhat anxious to remember...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 18 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 The first thing is to baptize the table and see that Erz likes it Legba The oil lamp is lit A ear of corn parched black 1st strip is brought in for...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 19 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 repeat the names of his bad parents plat with pineaplle bread maiz pistach banana cake oranges broken you have to put the same amt in each a plate with 2 stones a...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 20 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 for the dead a yellow plate cassave bread banana peanuts corn a white plate with same but banana but caymite a blue plate same things for Ogoun this was poured into a...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 21 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 a little saucer with flour an egg on end with liqueur nonal poured over it for Papa Dunballa this in on the floor with the other food a bottle of rum and...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 22 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 Verve white rouge Station door Florville holds chicken A plate of maiz bred is baptized Bz the family is called to assemble a long prayer is said why the chicken is held...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 23 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 Congo Wangol all these loi are being asked grace misericorde B1 Alovi Brave Guide Baron Samedi the Brave Simbis Toute morts Flor is asked for the names of his dead parents the...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 24 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 Fs head down front down back down sides circled round head same for wife shaken against breast they kiss the earth the chicken eats again Papa Legba paw dyab etc while corn...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 25 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 chicken lies on floor hides while h complaining his stomach libation of claim fish plantain a piece of yam malangu one patate a verve is made about them the food was then...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 26 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 water poured at door before Es table on verve for Mar by h then by Fl wife each libation is made twice Marassa luà 4B1 a cross flour is made on back...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 27 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 gives rooster no song h cant wring the neck but slits it because theyve too many people rooster eats then of pullet head is cut throat is slit off neck is held...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 28 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 Man now with an orange two baked yams backed chickens 2 pima bread cassave baked fish for loi brave Two drops are the lotion that the houngan distributed all over the room...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 29 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 to the loi s poor rellations and distributed to the family the children part stays in the macoute which is tied above the door on the rt side 5B2 Ogoun The usual...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 30 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 her grace a misericorde she goes back to her chair fixing her earing 2 songs to Ogoun Balendjo the song to Ogoun T had contin whole time during possession the chicken is...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 31 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 a white cock h makes libation 3 Fl then wife cock has flour on back the same woman who possessed Ogoun poured libation then big fat man h libation with sirop a...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 32 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 the chicken was killed at once a pool of his blood before the table and the tufts of feathers were pasted to the wall with blood to the right of the table...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 33 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 the chicken is rubbed down the front then back to head down back down left side down right side around neck around over head Erz appears the same woman as Ogoun staggering...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 34 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 she kisses the younger ones same woman Bon soin r mes dames de cette sociÃtà moin même Ãà Aida Wêdo they begin to sing Dumb songs put Do egg on the floor...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 35 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 libation chicken picks food black cock 8B1 Guêdê U ui wê jodi mà wê demain the cock is offered to the four points of the compass pecks food again Guêdê wuna begun...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 36 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 the chicken was briefly rubbed over Fls and Fls wifes head then the chicken was killed as usual the tufts of feathers stuck to the wall Everything washed A white sheet is...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 37 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 I played the Guêdê record Guêdê came back again with dark glasses a cigar a young woman in a dirty dress with a blue handkerchief about her waist black beads he rosary...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 38 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 turned her head and looked about her eyes darting then suddenly began to sing then Bon soir mes dames Agaou she was possessed by Agaou she poured libation in front of the...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 39 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 LÃvà s LÃvà pou toute loi yo The houngan comes backing in making libation following an old woman the head cook 12 stooping whirling after women woman after woman comes whirling with...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01
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Image 40 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Haiti, 1936-1937 food The whole ceremony cost about 20 375 for oil to cint food Before you move the food out of the kitchen you make a vÃrvà on the chaka to call the...- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1936-01-01