A mounted person is not themselves and the rules follow: they are not to be grabbed, restrained casually, addressed by their own name, laughed at, or contradicted as though they were the person whose body it is. Assistants manage them physically to prevent injury. The photography question is the sharpest live grievance. A century of outsiders — journalists, film-makers, anthropologists, tourists — recording ceremonies for their own purposes, frequently without permission and frequently to produce material that damaged Haitians, has left many houses unwilling to admit foreigners at all, and those that do generally impose strict conditions. Practitioners who have cooperated with researchers have often done so on the basis of long relationships. The suspicion is entirely earned and is a practical obstacle to accurate description, which is part of why English-language accounts remain as poor as they are.