ethnology

Vodou also has countless lwas, although Ogou Je Wouj — the god of red eyes — has grown more significant to Haitians given the lack of security in the country, said Erol Josué, a singer, oungan and director of Haiti’s National Bureau of Ethnology.

Valdimar Hafstein, a professor of folkloristics/ethnology at the University of Iceland, wrote in a 2018 book, “Making Intangible Heritage: El Condor Pasa and Other Stories From UNESCO,” that, given Robles’ travel through the Amazon and Andes to collect myths and music, part of a widespread tradition of “collector-composers,” it can be hard to describe the tune as either Robles’ original or an arrangement.

Stiofán Ó Cadhla is a senior lecturer in folklore and ethnology in University College Cork.

The parcels were finally opened on Thursday by a team of experts, observed by two academics from the Faroe Islands: Professor Erling Isholm, from the University of the Faroe Islands, and Margretha Nónklett, head of ethnology at the Faroes' National Museum.

Called “Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900—1968,” it was a photomural-with-texts affair of a kind found in ethnology museums.