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Aspinwall was the headquarters of a former British trading company and now this colonial building serves as the venue for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, one of Asia's biggest contemporary art festival.

One of the elderly Kappiri spirit medium who for over forty years have been invoking the African spirits during rituals at the scared groves in Vypin

The priest at the Kappiri temple who offers the daily pujas and also serves as the spirit medium

Devotees waiting in sacred grove to receive from Kappiri and other ancestral deities

Food and alcohol offered to appease the African spirits at the home of a devotee in Kochi

Dutch artist Gabriel Lester created this installation for the third edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale to tell the histories of the enslaved Africans in Cochin (Kochi).

Shrines dedicated to snakes or sarapam at a sacred grove in Vypin