Haitian Voodoo
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1990.1.5
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Geographic Society (U.S.)
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content: National Geographic Explorer videos
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content: 1 Videocassette (11 minutes, color sound)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1985
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Videocassettes
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content: Edited film produced for National Geographic Society Explorer television series by John Lipscomb examines the nature of Vodou through the yearly Festival of Our Lady of Mount Carmel held at a sacred waterfall outside Ville Bonne Heure, Haiti. Photographer Carol de Villers is interviewed concerning the practice of Voodoo and is shown photographing the pilgrims. Pilgrims are shown praying and making offerings to the spirits at different stations on the way to the waterfalls, cleansing themselves in the falls, and attending mass.