Alatise Akin AlapoOpele Limited

Gallery

Ceremony, devotees, tools and film

Photographs and short films from the temple — festivals, visitors from abroad, and the objects the work depends on.

Photographs

At the temple

Babalawo Akin Alapo in white lace agbada and coral beads beside a visiting devotee
Masquerade in white raffia and lace costume during a night festival
Baba Akin Alapo with devotees after a ceremony at the temple
Baba Akin Alapo welcoming a visitor to the temple compound

Films

Moments in motion

At the shrine
Blessing and preparation
Procession in white
Ceremony continues
Songs and celebration

Sacred tools

Herbs, beads and the tray

Babalawo Akin Alapo in white ceremonial agbada with coral beads
Opele divination chain resting on a carved Ifá tray
Carved Ifá divination tray marked with white iyerosun powder
Palm nuts falling into a divination bowl
Water poured from a clay pot into a brass bowl during a cleansing rite
Sacred grove at dawn with a white-cloth shrine beneath an iroko tree
Carved ancestral figures and brass bells on indigo adire cloth
Dried herbs, bark and black soap with a mortar and pestle
Candlelit Yoruba altar with brass bowl and cowries
Herbal medicine still life with calabash and roots
Cowrie and coral bead strands on indigo cloth
Coral and amber bead strand beside a brass mirror