Anklet
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Asojano (diety of infectious disease) anklet made of a dressed skin with burlap sewn on the outer side ith a buckle attached to the skin. The anklet is decorated with white shells, surrounded by red beads, with an occassional black bead, sewn to the burlap. The beads cover the outer surface of the anklet around the shells. The anklet was 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. It was on exhibit to document the Santeria practices specific to the Arará culture in Cuba. From an interview with Michael Mason: "There's also medicine in the base of all brooms and whisks. Inside this vessel there is a secret which is medicine inside cement then 7 shells and a single coral stone at the peak. This is a common way of dealing with medicine because the cemebt sucks moisture. There's an herbal medicine that it sucks in and sacrificial blood. I don't know what Pedro puts in his secret, he's never told me."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Oct 2023
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
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2082129
label: USNM Number
content: E436214-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Anklet
physicalDescription: label: Length - Anklet
content: 9 cm
label: Width - Anklet
content: 7.5 cm
label: Height - Anklet
content: 2.6 cm