Anthropological Objects from Nicaragua

 

Afro-American Head Miniature

Necklace Pendant made from Black Horn Coral, crested with silver filigrane jewellery

Torso of a Pregnant Woman with her Child

Ethnological Artcraft Sculpture made from beige Soapstone

Indigenous Cup

Hand-moulded Ceramic Cup with indigenous patterns and wild feline zoomorphic design painted with natural plant colors. 

The ceramic artcraft comes from an artisane workshop in San Juan de Oriente that arose from a solidarity-cooperation-project with german ceramic artcraft manufacturers from Höhr-Grenzhausen that provided technological equipment to the Nicaraguan artcraft producers and was acquired by CID Institute Museum in 1988

Dancers

Ethnological Artcraft Sculpture

composed with myrmecophilic Acacia thorns and ocean-snail-houses of 4 different species, painted with acylic colors. 

The thorns belong to so called "Bullhorn Acacia" (for example Acacia / Vachellia cornigera) species that often are inhabited by painful stinging ants. The protected living space provided by the plants thorns to the ants attracts them as nesting site, meanwhile the plants so called "Beltian Bodies", leaf-attachments rich in protein, suggar and fats, provide food to the ants. The so established symbiosis or mutualism between plant and ant is called myrmecophily and protects the plant from enemies.

Armadillo

Ethnological Artcraft Sculpture made from red Soapstone

Armadillo

Ethnological Artcraft Sculpture made from fruit of Calabash Tree Crescentia cujete, painted with acrylic colors

Maranjon-Fruit

Fruit from Cashew Tree Anacardium occidentale sculptured from wood and decorated with acrylic colors

Sandinista - Badges

Badges of Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional F.S.L.N. 

F.S.L.N.  Party Badge with red-black FSLN-colours and blue-white-blue Nicaraguan flag inside the Nicaraguan countrie national border border outline (Left)
C.S.T. Central Sandinista de Trabajadores (Sandinista Worker´s Centre) labor union badge with the "Sombrero"-hat of Augusto Cesar Sandino, founder of the FSLN movement, the red-black FSLN-Party-flag with "Hammer, Machete and Rifle"-symbols inspired by the east european communist party symbols hammer & sickle / compass, contemporary until the 1980ies (Right).

Sandinista Badges

Popular Solidarity Badges for the Nicaraguan Sandinista Movement from 1988,
fabricated on Totumo (Calabash Tree) fruit shell 

One Cordoba

Coin of the official currency of the Republic of Nicaragua, equivalent to 1 US - Dollar

Front side with the currency value 1 CORDOBA and the inscription EN DIOS CONFIAMOS (In God we trust) and PATRIA LIBRE O MORIR (Free Homeland or Death)

Reverse side with the national countries name REPUBLICA DE NICARAGUA and the portrait of AUGUSTO CESAR SANDINO, founder and reference person of the Sandinista Revolutionary Movement, portraited generally with his Sombrero-hat.

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