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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: 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: HERZILIE FREDA
Description: Flag / Banner. Herzulie / Erzulie The flag has red ribbon (satin border) around it, a multi-color half square triangle sequin border and in the center is a picture of St. Mary. The picture is covered in plastic and sequins are sewn around it. Other number: 128 Haitian flag makers will sometimes sew chromo-lithographic prints of the Catholic saints into their works. Each saint corresponds to a different loa or spirit. Freda is a somewhat tragic figure who longs for romantic love and fine things—hence her association with the bejeweled Our Lady of Sorrows.
Date Created: 1999
PID: grinnell:34783

Title: Sirenes
Description: Two mermaids face each other, metalic, circle. The mermaids hands touch at the center of the piece.
Date Created: 1999
PID: grinnell:34817

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