The magic island

Seabrook, William 1884-1945 author · 1929 · New York Harcourt, Brace and Company · 7 pictures

William Seabrook's 1929 travel account The Magic Island, published in New York by Harcourt, Brace and Company, describes Vodou and witchcraft in Haiti for an American reading public. The four pictures are stark black-and-white woodcut-style prints of masked dancers, a drummer, a staff-bearing figure and a head with a beaded necklace, with heavy black masses and white linear cuts a designer could borrow for bold, high-contrast graphic work.

Black people · Blacks · Vodou · Witchcraft · Social life and customs · Black people -- Haiti · Blacks -- Haiti · Vodou -- Haiti · Witchcraft -- Haiti · Sorcellerie -- Haïti · Vaudou -- Haïti · Manners and customs · Haiti -- Social life and customs -- 20th century · Haiti

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