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Title: VODOU FLAG FOR OGOU
Description: Flag. Blue satin border with rectangle in the center depicting a veve ogou. Gold center with various objects on the sides, stars, flags, etc. Knife? Mireille Delice apprenticed in the atelier of renowned flagmaker Myrlande Constant. Having also worked in a wedding dress factory, Delice was one of the early artists to begin introducing new materials and beading techniques into the art form
Date Created: 1997
PID: grinnell:34700

Title: VOODOO CASCADE (SAUT D'EAU)
Description: People in waterfall. Alternate or perhaps original title: Saut d' eau.
PID: grinnell:34643

Title: VOODOO CEREMONY
Description: Ceremony taking place inside what may be a shelter. The action is taking place at one corner of the shelter, as a corner support and part of the celing are visible. Many women wear white, and two women at the center hold flags. One flag is white, the other blue.
PID: grinnell:34660

Title: VOODOO CITY
Description: Painting of a sea side city with steep, castle- like mountains . Somewhat abstract. The sea is bright blue, the roads and buildings wind steeply up the mountains. Crowds of people gather on the shore and in the streets. Photo attached to Index card is not the photo shown in database: jungle with giraffes, angel, two children, peacock.
Date Created: 1980
PID: grinnell:34635

Title: VOODOO PARADE (RA RA)
Description: Evening scene of people dancing. They are parading down a street. Man at the front plays a flute or saxaphone. People wave their arms, jump, twist. Houses are visible on either side of the narrow street. a house on the viewer's right has lights in the window.
PID: grinnell:34630

Title: VOODOU TEMPLE
Description: Simple metal temple with designed roof. Fenced in on sides and back, with various figures inside. Two front figures are in profile, kneeling down towards a stick or sphere in the middle of the temple or ground. While most metal sculptors in Haiti have traditionally created works which are primarily two-dimensional in form, some artists have employed welding, riveting, bending and assemblage to create three-dimensional sculpture.
Date Created: 1997
PID: grinnell:34690

Title: Valentine's Dance 1955
Description: Grinnell College students at a Valentine's Day dance in 1955, probably in one of the gymnasiums. The Jack Oatts band is playing in the background. From Joanne M. Bunge's Grinnell College student scrapbook, 1952-1956.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:12955