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 made of a double loops of red beads attached to two cut shells, with two black beads in the middle of each loop. There is a cord loop at one end, and at the other end the bracelet ends in a double cut shell that inserts into the loop. The necklace 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.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jun 2019
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: E436218-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bracelet
physicalDescription: label: Length - Bracelet
content: 12 cm
label: Thickness - Bracelet
content: 2 cm