Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 7 Nov 2019
name: label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: Ochun (diety of rivers and fertility) dress and sash. The dress has a skirt and sleeves of gold satin-like material, with a bodice of white brocade with gold stitching and appliqued designs. There are rows of gold sequins at the neck and sleeves. The full skirt has three gold applique designs on the front, with peacock eyes and paste jewels. The sash has the same white brocade with gold stitching and appliques. Given to Michael Mason by Felipe Garcia from Cuba who was a participant at the 1989 Smithsonian Folklife Festival in the program "The Caribbean: Cultural Encounters in the New World."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 24 May 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Cuba (not certain), Caribbean (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cuban
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: E436224-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress / Sash
physicalDescription: label: Length - Dress
content: 137 cm
label: Width - Dress
content: 40 cm
label: Length - Sash
content: 77.5 cm
label: Maximum Width - Sash
content: 12.3 cm