Cult Necklace "Collier"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Feb 1942
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. A. Metraux
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: STRANDS OF COLORED GLASS, SNAKE VERTEBRAE. DURING VODOU SERVICES INITIATED MEMBERS ARE BELIEVED TO GAIN SPIRITUAL STRENGTH FROM NECKLACES LIKE THESE. INITIATES SHOW THEIR CONNECTION WITH A PARTICULAR DIETY ("LOA") BY PLACING NECKLACE ON THE EMBLEM ("VEVER") OF THAT DIETY DURING A RITE CALLED "DESCENT OF THE NECKLACE" WHICH MARKS THE FINAL PHASE OF THEIR INITIATION
label: Notes
content: From card: "...LOANED TO RENWICK 4/9/82, RETURNED 6/1983..." [for exhibit in "Celebration: A World of Art and Ritual" at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1982-83]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Sep 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Croix-Des-Bouquets (Near Port-Au-Prince), Haiti, Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haitian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 161294
label: USNM Number
content: E382208-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace