Anyone know what this is?

[Libertytree]

http://lummifilm.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/00a.jpg?w=595&h=711 (http://lummifilm.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/00a.jpg)
(http://lummifilm.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/00a1.jpg) http://lummifilm.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/00b.jpg?w=595&h=715 (http://lummifilm.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/00b.jpg)

http://lummifilm.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/00a1.jpg

[Libertytree]

This thing is 9″ tall, and was acquired from an old Spanish family whose heritage has been traced back to Spanish land grant times in New Mexico

[Dogman]

Other than it looks old, and possible Spanish in origin?

Need more history on the object.

If you hold it you maybe are now "cursed" and your baby's will be born naked!


Edit: still need more history, what part of Mexico, even today there are a bunch of superstitious ones that believe in ....

will not go into the shit that it could represent.

Probably a mix of catholic and Indian beliefs.

Which Mexico is and south America is for sure at this point.

[Libertytree]

The translation for the Latin is "votive offering these repose", now WTF does this mean?

[Cebu_4_2]

The translation for the Latin is "votive offering these repose", now WTF does this mean?

From google translator:

"Don't vote for the black man"

[Dogman]

your children will be cursed to be born naked.



;D

[palani]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem

[Horn]

Requiem is a celebration for the dead.

Looks like a private piece of art that someone laid their emotions of loss into.

[Libertytree]

Thanks Palani. That link led me to this.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Ripida.jpg/170px-Ripida.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ripida.jpg)

It's called a Flabellum. In this 1st pics I posted you can see the broken part at the Bottom, so I think it used to be a Flabellum.

[Horn]

Its a curio art picture piece you hang on the wall, you can see by the picture hanger at the top on the back.

I doubt its even that incredibly old, maybe 100-150 years at the most, though I'm no antique dealer.

[osoab]

Whoever painted it needs to go back to art school.

[mamboni]

Isn't a flabellum a type of truss worn over a large pot belly?

[Horn]

Isn't a flabellum a type of truss worn over a large pot belly?

Maybe its a reconditioned flabellum, that did not originally contain demon babies within it?