The Dolls Collection

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Please, note that Lady Mandy is fully fictional, she is not a real loa.
Also, the dolls on the big panel, left to right:
Sad, Doc Patch, Mojo, Noleg on the back, Talkative and it’s sibling Deafpot, then Zippy with Strawberry on it’s knees, on the back Eshu the wood puppet and Alice the bunny, Lefty the one armed doll, then Monkeysock, on the back: Jack the pumpkin, Talkative’s other sibling Pale Doll, and to the far right, Granny Calabash.

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Ah. Right, I forgot Eshu was doing a magnificent first impression in this page. (also, his design was still evolving at the time)
Mojo’s manner were also evolving .
(The bunny is Alice, Lady Mandy’s hand-maiden-plushy )

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Oh yeah, compared to the others dolls, Eshu is a giant, but he is smaller than Sunday, for exemple.

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I both loved and hated doing these pages. Loved the result, cursed during the process. Ink washes are HELL

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So, on the big panel, the couple on the left are Baron Samedi and his wife, Maman Brigit, the tallest on the middle are Gran Bwa, loa of the trees and Lady Mandy, the two water loas are La Sirène (on the left, she was also the one pulling the boats on the first panel) and her husband Agwé, both protectors of the sea.