Item
spoon sleeve
Object/Artifact
Handmade leather sleeve used to hold a spoon in prison. The back is inscribed with the names of the prisons where the owner was held in the late 1960s, after being sentenced to three years for attempting to leave the country and for abandoning his military post while in the draft. An improvised object shaped by politics and confinement.
2025.1.114
The Cabrera Arús family collection
2025.1
Belonged to José A Cabrera Pérez
María A. Cabrera Arús
12/15/2025
María A. Cabrera Arús
12/15/2025