Built in 1667, the Bastion Bungalow on River Road is an Indo-European building and the only remaining structure of the once extensive Dutch fortifications.
The sculptural installation of Kappiri created by Rigo 23 for the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2012. The suspended wooden sculpture narrates the treatment of Africans in Portuguese Cochin.
Portuguese artist Rigo 23's tripartite installation Kochi Tower at an abandoned boat jetty in Fort Kochi. The installation presents the history of fraught African migration towards Kerala during the Portuguese period.
A converted auto rickshaw displayed represent the vessel of Vasco da Gama installed next to the tower that commemorates the Portuguese age of discoveries and expansion.
A hollow structure displayed to represent the Arab vessel Miri that was bombarded of the Calicut coast by the Portuguese to terrorize travelers and gain control of the Arabian Sea.
Seen here is the wooden sculpture that represent the memories of African presence in colonial Cochin (Kochi) and in the background is the tower of discoveries
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.
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).
The installation Kappiri Spirits (2016) is a large wooden house like structure tilted like a boat swaying in the ocean winds. The window curtains represent sails of a dhow that were used in the Indian Ocean maritime trade
This public sculpture that represents the histories of the struggles of Africans in the Portuguese and Dutch occupied Kochi (Cochin) is displayed at the Bastion Bungalow Museum at Fort Kochi.
Loban or Frankincense, an aromatic resin with medicinal qualities burned during the Sidi ritual ceremonies. The ash is later collected and distributed to the devotees.
A shrine dedicated to Mai Misra in Jambur inside the Sidi scared complex with the central shrine dedicated to Nagarchi Bava, another prominent Sidi saint.
Devotees walking to attend the afternoon rituals at the shrine for Bava Habasah after observing the rituals to the central shrine of Bava Gor at Ratanpur in Gujarat