The Black Atlantic/AAAS 329-01/ARTHIST 383-01/ICS 226S-01

Haiti/Discussion of Thompson’s “Tap-tap, Fula-Fula. Kia-Kia: the Haitian bus in Atlantic perspective”

October 23, 2019

Above: Nicolas Eustache Maurin, early 19th century. Lithograph. Right: Tap-tap bus, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Left: Moke (Congolese artist), 1987. Acrylic on canvas. Right: Painted truck (kia-kia), Bornu City, Nigeria.

Tap-tap bus, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Left: Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, early 20th century. Wood, metal. Right: Fon artist (Ganhu Huntondji), Republic of Benin, ca. 1858-59. Wood and iron.

Left: St. James the Greater (St. Jacques Majeur/Ogoun Feray). Chromolith. Center: St. George (Ogoun Balendjo). Chromolith. Right: St. Michael (Ogoun Badagry). Chromolith.

Left: Hector Hyppolite, 1948. Enamel on board. Right: DeWitt Peters and Hector Hyppolite (1894-1948), Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1948.

Above: Andre Pierre (1916-2005). Right: Andre Pierre, circa 1950s. Painted calabash.

Numa Desroches circa 1807-20. Gouache and arabic gum on paper.

Gerard Valcin, 1971. Oil on masonite.

Sir Harry Johnston, Entrance to a VuduShrine, Haiti, circa 1910. Gelatin silver print.

Wilson Bigaud, mural, Cathedral

Sainte Trinite, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1950-51.

Haitian Rada altar, recreated at the UCLA Fowler Museum, 1995.

Haitian Petro/Kongo altar, recreated at the UCLA Fowler Museum, 1995.

Left, Center, & right: Assorted Paket Kongo, Haiti. Cotton, ribbons, beads, sequins, crucifixes, twine, and magical ingredients.

Left: Wilson Bigaud, 1958. Oil on cardboard.Center & right: Major Joncs performing in the carnival rara, Haiti, 1985.

Left: Vodou flag for St. Jacques, including veves for Ogoun Badagri and Ogoun Feray. Silk, cotton, sequins, beads. Right: Vodou flag for Damballah, including the national emblem of Haiti and veves honoring Agasou, Ezili Freda, Sobo-Bade, and Loco. Silk, cotton, sequins, beads.

Man drawing a veve for simbi, Kongo spirit of the water, Carrefour, Haiti, 1968.

Left: Veve for Ogoun. Right: Woman drawing a veve for Ogoun, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, circa 2000.

Upper left: “Ultraonomastic” tap-tap bus, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1993. Lower left: Tap-tap bus satirizing the elite, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1994.