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Haitian Primitive Painting, Manbo with Sword and Tobacco Pipe by Gerard Fortune, Voodoo Priestess
Gérard Fortuné was born in 1925(more or less, read about him in our blog) and started to paint in 1978. He was a houngan, pastry chef, and painter whose art talent flourished.. His work has been internationally exhibited and belongs to the Waterloo Museum of Art's permanent collection in Iowa and the Ramapo College in New Jersey. Gérard passed away on December 8, 2019, in Haiti, but his work still lives on.
A manbo is a priestess in the Haitian Vodou religion. Manbos and oungans are called into power via spirit possesion or the revelations in a dream. They become qualified after completing several initiation rituals and technical training exercises where they learn the Vodou spirits by their names, attributes, and symbols. One of the main goals of Vodou initiation ceremonies is to strengthen the manbo's konesans (knowledge), which determines priestly power.
22"x28.5"
