Vessel
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) vessel, a spherical vessel with a channel running around the middle, and holes punches in the top hemisphere, painted a cream color. The upper hemisphere is smaller than the lower hemisphere, and painted in quadrants red, yellow, blue, and white. Each quadrant has a cream arrow painted in it. 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 vessel was on exhibit documenting the Santeria practices specific to the Arará culture in Cuba.
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2082129
label: USNM Number
content: E436215-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar
physicalDescription: label: Height - Vessel
content: 19.2 cm
label: Diameter - Vessel
content: 25.5 cm