Object Name: Curative Bundle

Artist: Saveur St. Cyr

Place of Origin: Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Date/Era: 1999

Medium/Materials: Dolls, ribbon, sequins, netting, dried medicinal leaves

Dimensions: H: 37.0 cm, W: 22.0 cm, D: 11.0 cm (H: 14.5 in, W: 8.6 in, D: 4.3 in)

Credit Line: Fowler Museum at UCLA. Gift of Marilyn Houlberg.

Accession Number: X2007.8.1

Artist and Vodou priest Sauveur St. Cyr created this “paket kongo,” or curative bundle, transforming manufactured dolls into a mermaid holding mertwins. Dried medicinal leaves are inserted within the base.

Source: Drewal, Henry John. (2008) “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas“, Los Angeles, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. page 157