Cuban American Friendship Urn

The inscription in Spanish explains how the memorial was made from a piece of another memorial that was destroyed in a hurricane.

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This urn was carved from a piece of a memorial honoring the victims of the USS Maine explosion in Havana Harbor. The original memorial was destroyed in a hurricane. The refashioned urn was given to President Calvin Coolidge when he visited Cuba in 1928. The urn depicts two figures representing the United States and Cuba joining hands over a depiction of the USS Maine sinking. The memorial also shows two crests for the US and Cuba, and the oak and laurel leaves from the Cuban crest.

Inscriptions

Below eagle
EL RECUERDO DEL "MAINE" TENDRA ETERNA DURACION
DURANTE LOS SIGLOS LOS LAZOS DE LA AMISTAD ENTRA LA TIERRA DE CUBA
Y LA TIERRA DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE NORTE AMERICA
GERARDO MACHADO
The memory of the Maine will last forever through the centuries as will the bonds of friendship between the homeland of Cuba and the homeland of the United States of America
Base
ESTA COPA FUE ESCULPIDA
EN UN FRAGMENTO DE LA COUMNA DE MARMOL DEL
MONUMENTO A LAS VICTIMAS DEL "MAINE".
ERICIDO EN LA CIUDAD DE LA HABANA,
CUYA COLUMNA FUE DERRIBADA POR EL CICLON DE
20 DE OCTUBRE DE 1926.
This urn was sculpted from a fragment of the marble column from the Monument to the Victims of the "Maine" erected in the city of Havana. The column was toppled by the October 20, 1926 hurricane.