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Healing Humanity, Janet “Sula” Evans, Medicine Queen of the Spirit of Fi Yi Yi and the Mandingo Warriors

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Title

Healing Humanity, Janet “Sula” Evans, Medicine Queen of the Spirit of Fi Yi Yi and the Mandingo Warriors 

Description

This suit, Healing Humanity, honors Asase Yaa and Babaluaye. Asase Yaa is mother earth in the West African Akan tradition and the Twi language. Invoked to heal the planet and humanity, she is typically depicted with a pregnant belly, which symbolizes hope and blessings for the future. Babaluaye is an orisha, or force of nature, that also heals, sweeping the earth clean from pestilence and disease.

Creator

Photograph by Vincent Simmons

Date

Mardi Gras 2020

Type

Still Image

Collection

Sewing Uprising Collection

Citation

Photograph by Vincent Simmons, “Healing Humanity, Janet “Sula” Evans, Medicine Queen of the Spirit of Fi Yi Yi and the Mandingo Warriors,” Mystery in Motion | Louisiana State Museum, accessed May 28, 2022, http://mysteryinmotion.info/items/show/189.

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