Smoke, Backstreet Cultural Museum’s All Saints’ Day parade
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Title
Smoke, Backstreet Cultural Museum’s All Saints’ Day parade
Description
Adrianne Jackson, dressed in white, a ritual color associated with ancestors in Afro-diasporic communities, smokes a cigar as she participates in the parade. Cigars are central devotional objects in Yoruba and Afro-diasporic religions and are placed on altars and used for ritual cleansing. They also serve as a means of communication between devotees and their deity. The founder of Magnolia Yoga Studio, Jackson feels an ancestral connection to New Orleans, although she was not born here.
Creator
Photograph by Kim Vaz-Deville
Date
2018
Type
Still Image
Collection
Citation
Photograph by Kim Vaz-Deville, “Smoke, Backstreet Cultural Museum’s All Saints’ Day parade,” Mystery in Motion | Louisiana State Museum, accessed March 28, 2024, https://mysteryinmotion.info/items/show/34.