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crln-8088	Eberhart, George M.	New Publications	2008	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1186	47	60	Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas, by Henry John Drewal (227 pages, August 2008), explores the ar- tistic depictions of the West and Central African and Caribbean female water spirit, Mami Wata, who most commonly manifests as a mermaid or snake charmer. Produced to accompany an exhibition at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, this volume explores Mami Wata’s multiple origins as a primordial river spirit, the mermaid figurehead on European sail- ing ships, the Yoruba sea goddess Olokun, various Hindu deities, and a chromolitho- graph poster made for German circus master Carl Hagenbeck by the Adolph Friedländer Company in the 1880s showing a southeast Asian snake charmer named Maladamatjaute whose abundant hair is parted down the middle.	cache/crln-8088.pdf	txt/crln-8088.txt