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During Fieldwork in Côte d’Ivoire – with an initiate at the Dipri Festival, Sahuyé (2010)

Owel Assra Antoine, Master of the mystical power Sékè in Orbaff, Côte d’Ivoire – in 2010 and 30 years earlier

Masters of sékè studying photos of themselves in ritual performance 30 years earlier

Djedjro Edouard, master of Sékè, a healing power, with a photo of himself taken 30 years earlier

With elders and ritual specialists Djedjeroh Meledje (hat) and Sangroh Esaie, & friends Essoh Nomel Salomon (LT), Yedoh Edouard (back), Amary Ly Jonas (RT) in Orbaff, Côte d’Ivoire, 2009

Possession trance and self-stabbing by initiate during the Yam Festival (Kpol), Orbaff, Côte d’Ivoire (1980)

Yam Festival (Kpol), Orbaff, Côte d’Ivoire (1980)

Possession Trance, Yam Festival (Kpol) – Orbaff, Côte d’Ivoire (1980)

Initiates of Dipri returning from consecration at the river. Côte d’Ivoire, 2010

President of Kpol in Yassap, Meledje Djedress Philippe (2010)

“Strong” women - Orbaff, Côte d’Ivoire, 2010

Kamenan Adjoba, performer of Egbiki, the Abidji ritual of Female Genital Power. Sahuyé, Côte d’Ivoire (2010)

Anyi spiritual medium (Komye) – Côte d’Ivoire (2010)

Assistants to the Anyi spiritual medium (Komye) – Côte d’Ivoire (2010)

The Adioukrou ceremony “Angbangi” in Kpass, Côte d’Ivoire (2009)

Angbangi ceremony, Kpass, Côte d’Ivoire (2009) - retiring male celebrated by matrikin.

With young friends in Kpass, Côte d’Ivoire (2009)

Laura Grillo consulting Ifa with Fayemi Fatunde Fakayode, Aare Agbefaga of Yorubaland, Ile-Ife, Nigeria (2017)

“Wives of Shango” at the temple of Olodumare in Ile-Ife, Nigeria (2017)

One of The Mothers (2010)

Interviewing Chief, Tanau Longau Julien; Earth Priest Gnangra N'Guessan Bertin; and Elders of Sahuyé, Côte d’Ivoire (May 2009)

Diarra Souleymane, Diviner in Korhogo 1997

Mr. Saybou, a Malian Diviner in Youpougon (Abidjan) 2010

Reading Cowries in Dakar with Fatou Samb and Mme Aissatou NDiaye

With Mame Cor N'Dor, diviner from Fatick Senegal 1997