Flag depicts woman in red dress and green headwrap, holding a bottle and a knife beside a fire with a kettle holding a human head. She represents a sorceress called "caplata" (males called "bokor"). A hand holding an implement reaches down from the top of the flag toward the woman. The words San Pitie (without mercy) run across the top of the image, just in side the border, which consists of diamonds, triangles, half-circles and S-shapes.

Vodou Flag or Banner (San Pitie)

Haiti

1980s

Titles Vodou Flag or Banner (San Pitie) (Descriptive)
Artist Probably, Silva Joseph, Haitian, 1930 - 2011
Medium satin, sequins, plastic pearls and glass beads
Dimensions 30 × 28 1/2 in. (76.2 × 72.4 cm)
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Robert Cargo Folk Art Collection; Gift of Caroline Cargo, AFI.216.2013
Work Type flag or banner
Classification Ceremonial Objects