| Botanica Nena in Little Havana | Botanica Nena in Little Havana | Still Image | Fieldwork
Santeria
Herbs
Figurines
Crosses
Crucifixes
Religious symbolism
Religion
Christianity
Christian art and symbolism
Specialty stores
Stores, retail | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Botanica Nena in Little Havana
- Date
- 1980-06-02
- Description
- Thirty color slides. A botanica was a place where believers in Santeria could buy herbs and other supplies. Santeria is a New World version of the Yoruba religion. Catholic items such as crucifixes and statues of saints were also for sale. Slides S80-177, S80-180, S80-185, S80-189, and S80-191 are missing.
- Collection
| Botanica Santeria storefront | Botanica Santeria storefront | Still Image | Material culture
Stores, retail
Religion
Mysticism
Specialty stores
Belief systems
Beliefs and cultures
Santeria | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Botanica Santeria storefront
- Date
- Description
- One black and white print. Image of the Santeria Botanica storefront. This was a place where believers in Santeria can buy herbs and other supplies. Santeria is a Cuban version of the Yoruba religion. 1979. See also S 1577, box 17, folder 28 (P79-807, P79-808).
- Collection
| a_s1576_03_c80-016 | Copy of vinyl record <em>Canto y Rezo: A Todos los Santos</em> | Sound | Music performance
Cubans
Santeria
Religious music
Sound recordings | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
| a_s1576_03_c80-015 | Copy of vinyl record <em>Rezo de Santo: Ritmo de Santo de la Tierra de Africa en Arara</em> | Sound | Sound recordings
Cubans
Santeria
Religious music | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Copy of vinyl record Rezo de Santo: Ritmo de Santo de la Tierra de Africa en Arara
- Date
- 1960
- Description
- One audiocassette copy of a vinyl LP (Maype 180) directed by Valdés and narrated by Poldo. The recording includes musical prayers to the orishas Shango, Elegua, Yemoja, Obatala, and Ogun. The original LP was produced and distributed by Continental Recording in Miami on the Cuban label, Maype. This recording cannot be reproduced due to copyright.
- Collection
| a_s1576_03_c80-017 | Copy of vinyl record <em>Rezo de Santo</em> | Sound | Latinos
Santeria
Religious music
Sound recordings | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Copy of vinyl record Rezo de Santo
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One audiocassette copy of a vinyl LP (Maype 130) by Batista. The original LP was produced and distributed by Continental Recording in Miami on the Cuban label, Maype. This recording cannot be reproduced due to copyright.
- Collection
| a_s1576_83_c00-080 | Ezequiel Torres demonstration at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Narrative Stage | Sound | Folk festivals
Florida Folk Festival
Batá
Music -- Performance
Hourglass drums
Cuban Americans
Santeria
Orisha religion | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Ezequiel Torres demonstration at the 2000 Florida Folk Festival Folklife Narrative Stage
- Date
- 2000-05-27
- Description
- One audio cassette tape. Ethnomusicologist Martha Ellen Davis serves as emcee. Torres (drums) and his apprentice Yhanez (drums) discuss the origins of Cuban batá drumming and the different types of drums: Okónkolo ("baby" drum), Itótele ("father" drum), and Iyá ("mother" drum). He also describes Santeria and the orishas. They perform with Torres's sons, Aruan and Arelan, and his other apprentice, Font. Alfaro is a featured guest vocalist. The group was based in Miami.
The song titles reference the name of the orisha being sung to and the specific rhythm, or "toque," in parenthesis. The "Oru Seco" opens the batá ceremony as a supplication to the orishas to attend and participate.
- Collection
| a_s1576_05_c81-019 | Folklife in Miami slide-tape presentation | Sound | Education
Interviews
Cuban Americans
Latinos
Field recordings
Santeria
Cigar making | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Folklife in Miami slide-tape presentation
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One audio cassette. An educational audio and slide program entitled about the Cuban American community in South Florida. The program was created from earlier fieldwork images and audio recordings. Duplicate copies can be found in S 1576, box 39, tapes 4-7.
- Collection
| Haitian Botanica storefront | Haitian Botanica storefront | Still Image | Fieldwork
Specialty stores
Stores, retail
Religion
Haitian Americans
Community enterprise
Arts, Haitian
Community culture
Signs (commercial)
Santeria
Beliefs and cultures | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Haitian Botanica storefront
- Date
- 1985-08
- Description
- One color slide. This was a place where believers in Santeria can buy herbs and other supplies. Santeria is a Cuban version of the Yoruba religion. The Dade Folk Arts Survey was conducted in 1985 and 1986 by folklorists Tina Bucuvalas, Nancy Nusz and Laurie Sommers in order to identify folk arts and folk artists for the special folklife area at the 34th Annual Florida Folk Festival. The traditions are mainly Haitian, Jamaican, Mexican, Bahamian, Cuban and Jewish and cover a wide range of skills and art forms.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t80-038 | Interview with an unidentified santero and Cuban immigrant Cookqui Hernandez | Sound | Santeros
Healers
Fieldwork
Oral histories
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Santeria
Religion
Cuban Americans
Latinos
Religious rites
Emigration and immigration
Catholics
Saints
Santerios
Purity, Ritual
Specialty stores
Beliefs and cultures
Spanish language
Health | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Interview with an unidentified santero and Cuban immigrant Cookqui Hernandez
- Date
- 1980-04-02
- Description
- Four reel to reels. Santeria is a New World version of the African-based Yoruba religion that was combined with elements of Catholicism. Bulger interviews an unnamed Santero, a priest within the Santeria religion. They discuss the origins of the religions, various rituals and beliefs, botanicas, healing, and the roles of men and women in the religion. The interview is in Spanish, with Hernandez translating. There is also a short interview with Hernandez about emigrating to the United States from Cuba. Interview conducted for a slide/tape program on Cuban-Americans, a copy of which can be found on T80-95.
- Collection
| a_s1576_t80-046 | Interview with Cuban immigrant Aleida Martinez-Garrido | Sound | Fieldwork
Oral histories
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Santeria
Jokes
Cuban Americans
Latinos
Cuba
Emigration and immigration
Religion
Politics and culture
Political movements
Communism
Castro, Fidel, 1926- | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/audio.jpg |
Interview with Cuban immigrant Aleida Martinez-Garrido
- Date
- 1980
- Description
- One reel to reel. Interveiw with a Cuban immigrant about the Cuban American community in Miami. Topics include: Reasons for immigration; life in Cuba; Communism; Fidel Castro (and jokes/anti-Castro movements), bolita; Santeria; quince; acculturation of Cuban Americans; the Mariel boat lift on 1980. Interview conducted for a slide/tape program on Cuban-Americans, a copy of which can be found on T80-95.
- Collection
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