Rites of Passage

Date - Thursday 22 October 2009 - Sunday 31 October 2010

Customs, past and present, from many parts of the world, and from Northern Ireland, connected with the major Rites of Passage; Birth, Marriage and Death.

Some of the artefacts inlcuded in this exhibition are:

Japenese Wedding Kimono

Japenese Wedding Kimono, Ulster Museum collection

Link to Japanese collections

Masks from the World Cultures Collections

Mask depicting a dying shaman, Ulster Museum collection.   Tsimshian, Northwest Coast, c 1850.   Donated by Londonderry Corporation.

Link to World Cultures collections

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