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Dr. Alfred Metraux’s Gourd Rattles
Title: Gourd Rattle “Asson” “Baksor”
Donor Name: Dr. Alfred Metraux
Culture: Haitian
Object Type: Rattle
Place: Croix-Des-Bouquets (Near Port-Au-Prince), Ouest Province, Haiti, Caribbean
Accession Date: 1942-Jun-19
Topic: Ethnology
Accession Number: 163278
Catalog Number: E382581-0
USNM Number: E382581
Specimen Count: 1
Notes: GOURD RATTLE, NARROW END SERVES AS HANDLE. COVERED WITH LOOSE RETICULATE NETTING OF COLORED GLASS, PROCELIAN BEADS, AND SNAKE VERTEBRAE. THE “ASSON” IS [...]
“Voodooism” Increases Profits
On the tendency of white foreigners, especially, and recently American negroes, to read dark, jungle atavism into even the most guileless aspects of Haitian life, our author has this to say:
“Many good missionaries have come to us from the United States and elsewhere to advise us to preserve our traditions, customs, and African cults [...]
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Haiti: Religion
There is at the present time entire freedom of the Press and religious toleration. The Protestants now upon the ground, (mostly English Wesleyans) may preach in their chapels, in the streets, and from house to house, without the least hinderance from Government, but on the contrary, with their sanction and approval. They have also [...]
Haiti: Vodou
The years when Haitian culture was first emerging as a major object of anthropological study both domestically and internationally were actually a period of prolonged penalization and persecution for many who served the Vodou spirits.
Kate Ramsey, “Prohibition, persecution, performance,” Gradhiva (2005)
Zora Neale Hurston and Haiti