Whisk
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Guero (the rainbow serpent) whisk made of a bunch of plant fibers roughly 55 cm long, held together by a handle made of a string of white beads, with blue spots. Shell designs are incorporated in the handle, and at the top of the handle. Medicine is incorporated in the base of the whisk. 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 whisk was on exhibit documenting the Santeria practices specific to the Arará culture in Cuba.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
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: E436226-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Whisk
physicalDescription: label: Length - Whisk
content: 60 cm
label: Maximum Diameter - Whisk
content: 4.5 cm