Victor
Patricio de Landaluze, El Ñáñigo , lithograph,
c.11x9", from Landaluze's Tipos y Costumbres de La Isla de Cuba 1881.
The artist, a Basque who lived in Guanabacoa, Havana, Cuba for 40 years
during the nineteenth century, realistically documented Afro-Cuban "types"
and "customs," including Carnival, street life, and the Abakua ireme masquerader
(aka diablito náñigo ). It remains the canonical image
of the ireme today. |