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ROOTS OF DOMINICAN RELIGION

A smaller palo drum called the palo mediano hangs in the Division 21 Botanica along with cast iron pots for mixing herbs and walking staffs carved in traditional African styles.

Walking through a botanica and seeing so many objects that at first seem to come from very different cultures just demonstrates the fusion of traditions imported to the Domincan Republic from both the Spanish, catholic colonists and the African slaves who worked for them.