Ceramic jar with cover
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Guero (the rainbow serpent) vessel, a coiled footed jar with mouth slightly smaller than shoulders, painted white, with incised linear decorations at top and bottom, painted blue. There is also an incised linear tree-like shape, painted blue, on one side. The lid is painted white with incised linear twig-shaped lines painted blue. The lid has a large knob, pinched on four sides and painted with an X in blue on the top. 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. The jar was on exhibit documenting the Santeria practices specific to the Arará culture in Cuba. It was paired on exhibit with a necklace (E436201).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 May 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
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: E436200-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar
physicalDescription: label: Height - Jar
content: 26.4 cm
label: Maximum Width - Jar
content: 14.5 cm
label: Maximum Height - Lid
content: 6 cm
label: Diameter - Lid
content: 16.2 cm