Legba Staff "Baton Legba"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jun 1942
name: label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Alfred Metraux
notes: label: Notes
content: THE "BATON LEGBA" IS A GNARLED STAFF, THE CRUTCH OF THE VODOU DIETY LEGBA. IN VODOU COSMOLOGY, LEGBA IS THE GATEKEEPER, THE OLD MAN WHO SITS AT THE GATE AND GRANTS ENTRANCE TO THE OTHER WORLD. PERSONS POSSESSED BY LEGBA ARE CRIPPLED [SIC] AND TWISTED AND REQUIRE THE USE OF THE STAFF (SEE M. DEREN 1970, DIVINE HORSE- MEN: VOODOO GODS OF HAITI. p. 96-100).
label: Notes
content: From card: "...LOANED TO RENWICK 4/9/82, RETURNED 6/1983..." [for exhibit in "Celebration: A World of Art and Ritual" at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1982-83]
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Apr 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Croix-Des-Bouquets (Near Port-Au-Prince), Ouest Province, 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: 163278
label: USNM Number
content: E382576-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Staff