PERFORMANCE

Music and Theatricality

Vaccine Haiti Made by Canyl Thibeaud 2000 Canadian Museum of Civilization

     

These bamboo horns of various lengths produce only one sound. Like the konè, they are played in groups of five, and by combining them it is possible to create the rhythmic melody heard during street parades. The names of the vaccines are, from largest to smallest: manman, chalmail, mondesi, peti, tipeti.