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Secrets of Paris by Gokhan Altintas Photography
Model: Ophelia Gano
Photographer: Gokhan Altintas Photography
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"Important to Caribbean festival arts are the ancient African traditions of parading and moving in circles through villages in costumes and masks. Circling villages was believed to bring good fortune, to heal problems, and chill out angry relatives who had died and passed into the next world. Carnival traditions also borrow from the African tradition of putting together natural objects (bones, grasses, beads, shells, fabric) to create a piece of sculpture, a mask, or costume — with each object or combination of objects representing a certain idea or spiritual force."
Read more at: /www.carnivalpower.com/history_of_carnival.htm