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: Nanu coiled, footed vessel with high shoulders, painted a cream color. The lid, also painted cream, is a hemisphere divided into four sections each painted red, blue, white, or yellow, and each with a cream arrow. 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: 11 Jun 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: E436227-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Jar
physicalDescription: label: Height - Vessel
content: 14.5 cm
label: Maximum Width - Vessel
content: 14.8 cm
label: Maximum Height - Lid
content: 7.5 cm
label: Diameter - Lid
content: 13.5 cm