Painted Maypole
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1991
name: label: Donor Name
content: No Information
notes: label: Notes
content: SPECIMEN USED DURING MAYPOLE DANCES THAT TAKE PLACE IN RURAL AND URBAN HAITI DURING THE SEVEN-WEEK SEASON FROM EARLY JANUARY TO EASTER. DANCERS WEAVE COLORED RIBBONS AROUND THESE PORTABLE MAY-POLES TO THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF GUITARS, MARIMBULAS (THE HAITIAN THUMB PIANO), AND CHA-CHAS (RATTLES) (SOURCE: HAROLD COURLANDER, 1959 THE DRUM AND THE HOE. p. 106/FIGURE 75).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: 999999
label: USNM Number
content: ET16341-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Maypole