Art, Symbol & Imagination
A Haitian Ceremony after Picart
A crowd gathers before a large open shrine while dancers move across the foreground. Figures and ceremonial objects occupy the raised interior. Carus reproduces the image after Picart and labels it a demonolatrous ceremony of the old inhabitants of Haiti, a description belonging to the source’s historical religious framework.
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Illustrator not identified. "A Haitian Ceremony after Picart" [editorial title]. In The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil, Paul Carus. 1900 illustrated edition, 1900, The Open Court Publishing Company. Source scan leaf 31. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0252-0026
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Illustrator not identified. A Haitian Ceremony after Picart. The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil. Scan leaf 31. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0252-0026