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More model informationSimbi 3 Zilets Negne Escalie Bomba, ca. 2000
Fowler Museum at UCLA, X2022.5.1; Gift of Evelyn S. Meyer
Constant enigmatically renders Simbi, the lwa typically associated with fresh water, as an almost abstract figure centered along a vertical line. Angelic beings descend amid swirls and eddies of gold bugle beads. This scene may depict the lwa entering the body of a servateur (one who serves the lwa). In Vodou, the lwa speak through human hosts to their human communities; in the process, people come to know the divine.
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