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Ritmos de Identidad: Fernando Ortiz's Legacy and the Howard Family Collection of Percussion Instruments

February 29, 2000 - August 1, 2000

Museum: Arts and Industries Building

Location: West Gallery

Approximately 150 percussion instruments, books, photographs, and stamps are used to explore percussion and its role in Afro-Caribbean music and to examine how cultural expressions travel to other lands, are preserved, and are transformed. The exhibition also tells the stories of Fernando Ortiz (1881-1994), a pioneering Cuban anthropologist, and Dr. Joseph Howard (1912-1994), who assembled a collection of over 700 percussion instruments from all over the world. Instruments are on loan from the Howard Collection.

Sponsored by the Center for Latino Initiatives.

Notes:  Ritmos de Identidad = Rhythms of Identity.