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Suite 19/20 High Water Hog Blues T. Huck 2000

Bocio, meaning "empowered cadaver," are power objects (bo) that represent deceased human beings (cio) though the figure may appear to be alive. A bocio is not a spirit, but a kind of decoy meant to trick death by substituting for a real person.…

Suite 19/20 Playland, The Great Sharkburger Shortage of '95 T. Huck 2000

Numbered "48" on verso.

Suite 19/20 Bed of Bones T. Huck 2000

Suite 19/20 The Marriage of Jim and Dolly T. Huck 2000

Suite 19/20 Exhuming Moses T. Huck 2000

This figure represents "Mami Wata," the pidgin English term for "Mother of Water," a water spirit who has enjoyed a wide following in Central Africa, West Africa, and regions of the African Diaspora. It was carved by an Ibibio artist living in…