Broom
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Nanu Baruku (ancient mother of the universe, embodies the moon and earth) ceremonial broom made of a bunch of plant fibers roughly 98 cm long, lashed together with a small twine, and bent back on itself and tied together. The large end has a string of brown and white beads wound around to make a handle. Shells are incorporated in the handle with medicine at the base of the broom. 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 broom 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: 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
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: E436196-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Broom
physicalDescription: label: Length - Broom
content: 50.8 cm
label: Width - Broom
content: 18 cm
label: Maximum Depth - Broom
content: 5.2 cm