Bar of soap
- Museum number:
- 16-18481
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21160018481
- Alternate number:
- 27 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.3422
- Description:
- Box containing a bar of soap (Limpia Corpo: clean body); printed paper; red, black, and yellow. Length: 7.6 cm; depth: 1.8 cm; width: 5 cm.
- Donor:
- Daryl P. Domning and University Appropriation
- Collection place:
- Manaus, Amazonas State, Brazil
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Brazil
- Culture or time period:
- Afro-Brazilian
- Collector:
- Daryl P. Domning
- Collection date:
- April 1978
- Materials:
- Soap (organic material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
- Context of use:
- Used in Umbanda, one of the Afro-Brazilian possession cults.
- Department:
- South America (except Ancient Peru)
- Title:
- Limpia Corpo
- Legacy documentation:
-