Necklace
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) necklace, without a clasp, made of alternating white and brown beads. They are strung as 17 white beads, 17 brown beads and two cut shells. 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. Ancestors of the Arará were from Dahomey, now the present day Republic of Benin, and Togo. This necklace was paired on exhibit with a ceramic jar and lid (E436200).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Apr 2022
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: E436201-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bead
physicalDescription: label: Length - Necklace
content: 61.5 cm