- Collection:
- Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012
- Title:
- Untitled (shrine figure)
- Creator:
- Barra, Pierrot
- Date of Original:
- 1985/1995
- Subject:
- Folk art--Haiti
Sculpture--Haiti
Vodou--Haiti
Visionaries--Haiti
Baby dolls--Haiti
Dolls--Haiti
Talismans--Haiti
Human figure in art - Location:
- Haiti, 19.07582, -72.29616
- Medium:
- mixed media
found objects - Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Sculpture by Pierrot Barra.
Pierrot Barra was a visionary folk artist who worked out of a booth in the Iron Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti alongside his wife, Marie Cassaise. Barra assembled three-dimensional sculptures from old toys, fabric, glass, and a host of discarded items. Most of the assembling was done using straight pins and glue. An authentic Barra work will almost always "bite" you if you are careless of the pins. Barra's works are depictions of various Vodou spirits.
Purchase of the Tubman African American Museum. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:tbmn_sftm_tm04132011-210
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/sftm/do:tm04132011-210
- Rights Holder:
- Please contact the Tubman African American Museum re: reproduction and usage. The information contained in this resource may not be re-purposed, reproduced, quoted without proper citation, or offered for sale in any form without the express written permission of the Tubman African American Museum.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [title of item], Selections from the Collections of the Tubman African American Museum, 1800-2012, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1 sculpture : mixed media ; 59 x 28 x 23 cm.
- Holding Institution:
- Tubman African-American Museum
- Rights:
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