A man in Madagascar predicting the future with seeds (sikidy). Process print, ca. 1930, after G. Grandidier.

1930

1 print : halftone ; image and text 10.2 x 15.2 cm

Divination; Sikidy: a process of divination by means of seeds, is employed by sorcerers to predict future events; the person officiating arranges the seeds on a mat, in sixteen small heaps, then forms figures, the meaning of which he interprets. By permission of G. Grandidier.

Wellcome Collection 562822i