Iroko Historical Society · Per Medjat
Planned Collection

Hyatt

A structured corpus of hoodoo and rootwork materials with governed descriptive access and collection-aware search. In development within the Medjat interface.

Collection Overview
Source materials
Harry Middleton Hyatt's Hoodoo — Conjuration — Witchcraft — Rootwork and related primary source ethnographic materials on African American folk spiritual practice.
Scope
Structured entries covering practices, materia medica, practitioners, and associated cultural geography, governed by the Iroko Framework access tier model.
Ontology alignment
Records will use the Iroko Framework vocabularies for ritual use, access governance, linguistic labels, and provenance tracking.
Access model
Assertion-level access control. Public records discoverable. Governed material displayed with explicit stewardship boundaries, not silently omitted.
In development

This collection is reserved and in planning. To follow development or contribute materials, contact the Iroko Historical Society at irokosociety.org.