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Title: AGWE AND LA SIRENE
Description: Flag. La Sirene, and her husband Agwe in the center with a sailboat in the background smaller mermaid in lower right corner. Framed in yellow cloth. 'AGO DE TAUIOYO' in red top off center right. Bottom center and to the left. 'Haiti' in yellow 'Simeon'
Date Created: 1999
PID: grinnell:34747

Title: AMERICAINE MAGI
Description: Flag. Beaded banner has green and black zig zag border, a girl with flared skirt and black ponytail holding a large black bird above her head. There is also a big pink heart with gold spikes.
PID: grinnell:34752

Title: ANIMAL
Description: 3 animals, bird, dog or horse, with hair raised in back. Largest animal has a mane and fluffy tail. Possibly a lion. Given by John Will and Mary Shannon Will in the name of Magdaline W Shannon and Lyle W. Shannon.
PID: grinnell:34760

Title: ERZULIE MAPIANGUE
Description: Flag banner. Heavily beaded. Woman in blue robe holds child in red robe. Erzulie Mapiangue. Erzulie Danthor is the mother/protector of the Vodou pantheon. She can be very fierce when required. Not only does she watch over children, she is considered to be the mother of the Haitian people, having fought by their side in the struggle for independence.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:34846

Title: CANADIANHOU
Description: Flag/banner. Purchased from Marilyn Houlberg by the Waterloo Center for the Arts.
PID: grinnell:34838

Title: BARON (flag)
Description: 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
Date Created: 1999
PID: grinnell:34748

Title: BARON (flag)
Description: Flag. Large white skull in center of flag towards the top. Two smaller skulls (one on either side of the large skull) a cross is behind the larger skull. The larger skull is on a black step base with a candle on either side. To the left and top is a black
PID: grinnell:34742