Painting
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1983 to 1984
name: label: Collector
content: Carole Yawney
label: Donor Name
content: Jake Homiak
notes: label: Notes
content: Supply title provided by Jake Homiak: "Under America's Eyes". Painting by Ras Mortimo Planno (aka Brother Kumi), (Kingston, Jamaica, c. 1980), famous as the spiritual mentor to Bob Marley. Oil on canvas board. Painting depicts a rainbow over a frowning Richard Nixon who surmounts a scene of Bob Marley joining the hands of Edward Seaga, then Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (left) and Michael Manley, Prime Minister at the time and leader of the Peoples National Party. This scene, enshrined in the lore of Rastafari and reggae music, took place during the so-called "Peace Concert" held at Jamaica's National Stadium, April 22, 1978. This event was preceded by widespread civil unrest during the two previous years. The "Green Bay Massacre," January 5, 1978, led to the extra juridicial killings of 15 Jamaica Labor Party supporters who were lured to a spot and shot by members of the Jamaica Defense Force. This event is depicted in the painting. Another major event - the burning of the Eventide Hospital in Kingston May 20, 1980 - was believed to have been orchestrated by the CIA under President Nixon and his Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. (Putative CIA involvement followed from the fact that Nixon disapproved of Manley's endorsement of Cuba's Castro regime at the time.) During that tragedy some 150 persons perished because doors to the hospital had been locked from the outside preventing escape. This scene is depicted on the left side of the painting. Painting was a gift by Planno to anthropologist Carole Yawney. See also the Papers of Carole D. Yawney, National Anthropological Archives.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kingston, Jamaica, Caribbean
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Jamaican
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2073991
label: USNM Number
content: E434379-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 46 cm
label: Width
content: 61 cm