Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

2/1/1982 - 2/28/1983

Funding Totals

$15,000.00 (approved)
$15,000.00 (awarded)


Divinities and Spirits Worshipped by the Yorubas in Africa and the Americas

FAIN: GM-20734-82

Anson Phelps Stokes Institute (New York, NY 10128-0505)
Marta M. Vega (Project Director: July 1981 to October 1990)

To support planning of an interpretive traveling exhibition devoted to the study and appreciation of the Orisha Tradition, the name given to more than 400divinities and spirits worshipped by the Yorubas in Africa as well as their descendants in the Americas.