Beaded Afro-Cuban figure, Santería (Regla de Ocha)

A small freestanding figure, roughly 3 cm tall, built from beads worked into a three-dimensional form over a thread core. The palette is the most distinctive feature: the head and upper body are black, with yellow hands, foot, and face; the neck and arms are green; and the splayed skirt is predominantly white with red bead accents. A white-and-red round-brimmed hat sits at the back, practically destroyed. A length of brown plant-fiber twine (jute or similar) emerges at the top, frayed. The beadwork is dense and deliberate.

Cuban artisan-market plaque — printed reproduction of a French late-Gothic devotional painting (St. Anne with a crowned woman and a younger female figure), mounted on wood

A rectangular paper print reproducing a late-15th/early-16th-century Northern European (French / Franco-Flemish) devotional painting, adhered to an irregular hand-cut wooden board and varnished, with deliberately abraded edges. The image shows, before a green-blue cloth of honor, an older haloed female saint (St. Anne) veiled in white and blue, standing behind and extending her hands protectively over a crowned young woman in jeweled dress with hands clasped in prayer, and a smaller young female figure, also praying, at right. Bare stained/varnished wood surrounds the print; the board has a live (waney) edge at right and a notched lower-left corner.