Bracelet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Asojano (diety of infectious disease) bracelet (cacha) made of a goat skin from a goat that has been sacrificed to Asojano, with burlap sewn on the outer side and a buckle attached to the skin. The bracelet is decorated with white shells, surrounded by red beads, with an occassional black bead, sewn to the burlap. The bracelet was commissioned by Michael Mason from Pedro Abreu, a well known priest in Cuba, for a temporary exhibit "Rhythms of Identity", at the Smithsonian Latino Center in 2000. It was on exhibit to document the Santeria practices specific to the Arará culture in Cuba. From an interview with Michael Mason: "The bracelet is filled with medicine and washed and fed with other ritual objects and then worn-- its medicine is in the same sense as power objects in West Africa are constituted."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Oct 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Havana, Cuba, Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Afro-Cuban, Santería
label: Culture
content: Afro-Cuban, Arará
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2082129
label: USNM Number
content: E436212-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bracelet
physicalDescription: label: Length - Bracelet
content: 12.4 cm
label: Width - Bracelet
content: 9.2 cm
label: Height - Bracelet
content: 2 cm