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Round coiled plant-fiber coaster

Object/Artifact

A small circular coaster of coiled and stitched plant fiber (rush/straw-type), worked as a flat spiral from a central coil outward to a braided, lightly scalloped rim. The fiber is now an aged grayish-brown, dry and weathered, with the individual coils and binding stitches clearly visible. Faint specks and traces of color survive on the surface; per donor information, the coaster originally carried painted lines that have now largely faded. No maker's mark, label, or lettering is present. The piece reads as a handmade woven craft.

2025.1.153

Used by Leopoldo Arús Gálvez at home.

Purchased in the 1980s on Reina street in Havana, at a store that sold Soviet merchandise that arrived through the trade agreements between Cuba and the USSR.

The Cabrera Arús family collection

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection

2025.1

Materials: Coiled plant fiber (rush, sedge, palm, or similar — specific plant undetermined); remnants of applied paint/pigment (largely lost). Technique: Coiled basketry — a continuous fiber bundle wound in a flat spiral and bound with stitching, finished with a braided/scalloped edge; surface then decorated with painted lines (now faded).

Fair

Leopoldo Arús Gálvez

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

use, purchase