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With more than five hundred years of written history, the island of Cuba has the oldest colonial heritage in the Western Hemisphere. One facet of this heritage is furniture. Thousands of examples of colonial furniture survive, but the one form that most Cuban furniture scholars feel best exemplifies the cultural essence, or Cubanidad, is the eighteenth-century sacristy chest of drawers (comoda de sacristia). One of the most famous of these (Pl. II) is in the Catedral de La Habana (Cathedral of Havana; Pl. I), although it is not as large as the one (Pls. III, IIIa) in the city's oldest church, the Iglesia del Espiritu Santo (Church of the Holy Ghost), which was built in the ...