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BARON (flag)

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Flag. Standing figure dressed in black with a top hat. He has a rooster in his right hand andi s surrounded by plant life. Black cloth frame/border. The word barron is in lower left in red beads. Simeon fashioned this flag after a painting by renowned Haitian painter Andre Pierre. The subject, Baron LaCroix, is the loa of the graveyard. Not all gloom and doom, this spirit protects children from untimely death and connects one to the ancestors
Title BARON (flag)
artist Simeon, Amina
Index Date 1999
Date (Other) 1999
Provenance Waterloo Center for the Arts
source Purchased by the Waterloo Center for the Arts
MC religions (belief systems;cultures;concepts)
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Extent 25.75 x 28.13 in. (65.41 x 71.44 cm)
Medium Textile
Media Type image/jpeg
Identifier (local) 2001.0063
Access Condition Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
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