Painted Calabash Bowl "Couis"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jun 1942
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Alfred Metraux
notes: label: Notes
content: HALF-CALABASH PAINTED BLACK WITH WHITE GEOMETRIC DESIGNS AROUND RIM. THE LETTERS "G.N.B." APPEAR ON THE EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF BOWL. LOANED TO RENWICK 4/9/82, RETURNED 6/1983 [for exhibit in "Celebration: A World of Art and Ritual" at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1982-83]. IN NOTES PREPARED FOR THE CELEBRATION EXHIBIT, HAROLD COURLANDER SUGGESTS THAT "G.N.B." STANDS FOR "GRAND-BOIS", A DIETY OF THE FOREST. (M. DEREN REPORTS THIS AS ANOTHER NAME FOR LEGBA; 1970 DIVINE HORSEMEN p. 99). THE BOWL WOULD BE SET UPON A VODOU ALTAR TO HOLD A RITUAL OFFERING OF FOOD FOR THIS SPIRIT
label: Record Last Modified
content: 26 Sep 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Croix-Des-Bouquets (Near Port-Au-Prince), Ouest Province, Haiti, Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Haitian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 163278
label: USNM Number
content: E382571-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bowl