Painting
date: label: Collection Date
content: 1975 to 1976
name: label: Collector
content: Carole Yawney
label: Donor Name
content: Jake Homiak
notes: label: Notes
content: Supply title provided by Jake Homiak: "Red, White, Yellow, and Blue". Painting by Ras Mortimo Planno (aka Brother Kumi), (Kingston, Jamaica c. 1975), famous as the spiritual mentor to Bob Marley. Oil on canvas board approximately 12 x 20 inches. Painting is formatted in the style of the British and Jamaican flags, divided into four triangular quadrants by diagonal blue/yellow stripes connecting the corners of the rectangular form. Western quadrant suggests a Jamaican/Caribbean landscape with banana trees and a dildo macca (cactus) fence; eastern quadrant is most red with touches of a stylized American flag; southern quadrant represented by a stylized image of the Pope of Rome or Christian cleric in a small enclosure; and northern quadrant with a stylization of the American and Jamaican flag colors. At the center of painting a colonial-style judge with white wig stands over a kneeling Dreadlocks with a white bird, a sign of 'Peace and Love' emblematic of the Rastafari, on his head. The quadrant themes suggest the binaries of church-and-state and East-and-West that are prominent in Rastafari discourse. The overall composition suggests the global persistence of colonial legacies. 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: E434386-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 45.5 cm
label: Width
content: 61 cm