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“Ju-Ju” markets and birds in African magico-medicinal use

December 14, 2008 – 8:04 pm

These market stalls contain “an assembly of skulls and skins arranged in a powerful, if often rather disturbing, display that can include horse and hyena heads, crocodiles, dried snakes and monkey skulls. The presence of so much decomposing flesh, crudely preserved with only ash or salt, makes for a very unhealthy background odour and a super-abundance of flies.

By Bob Gosford | Posted in Birds, Birds and people, Ethnoornithology | Also tagged , , , , | Comments (0)