Object Details
- Festival Program
- 1992 FAF: Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Culture in the Americas
- Description
- Carved, incised, and painted cedar building component piece that includesan 8-point star at the apex, and side decorations that incorporate the Suriname flag (a yellow star on a red center panel, banded by white and green stripes. In the center of the cross-piece is an intricately carved bas-relief of an interwoven pattern (unpainted) with red, yellow, and white horn-like shapes extending from either edge. All painted areas were lightly incised prior to painting, helping to keep the pattern crisp.
- Technique
- Carved and painted
- Provenance
- Made at the Festival
- Date
- 1992
- Maker and Participant
- Aniekil Awardie
- Adingie Aboikoni
- Geography
- Asindoopo, Suriname, South America
- Culture
- Maroon
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- Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Collection
- Credit Line
- Gift of makers
- Data Source
- Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
- Object number
- 316
- Type
- Building Components
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- Wood (cedar)
- Dimensions
- 40" H x 62" W x .5" D.
- Record ID
- cfch_316
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