Anyone know what the green thing is on the Haitian Coat of Arms?

[liberalnarb]

The thing sitting on the back of the left cannon?

[femmocrat]

1. A dreidel? nt

[petronius]

2. Maybe a military hat or helmet? That's what it looks like in the

same position on the right side...

[canetoad]

3. It looks like a mortar and pestle to me

Below is the flag used from 1964 - 86.



Possibly a temple object?

"Most of the objects that make up Haiti’s national coat of arms, such as the machete, the palms—according to Laurent Dubois—are symbols of a Vodun temple."
http://kreyolicious.com/haitian-flag-facts-history/4708

[Brother Buzz]

4. Mmmm, Allspice

An army marches victoriously on a full stomach of jerk chicken and pork.

[csziggy]

5. In the version here it looks like a drum

The page it is from shows a lot of different early versions: https://haitidoi.com/2013/09/15/the-haitian-coat-of-arms/#_ftn1

[petronius]

15. I'd say it's definitely a hat in this image (a shako style uniform hat)

Like this sort of thing:

[csziggy]

16. Ah! And that would balance the helmet on the other side!

Good catch!

[pinboy3niner]

17. Is that a feather or are you just happy to see me?

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. My guess is a Helmet

As the cannon on the right has a helmet also. In each of the other versions above, if you zoom in, particularly the one in the post above mine, it clearly looks like military headgear.

The item poking up that looks like a pestle would be the nose guard like this;

[Wolf Frankula]

8. That's a Norman Style Helmet.

They were out of use long before Haiti was Haiti. I think that's a mortar and pestle.

Wolf

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. I know what style helmet it is, I was merely using it for illustration

What designer would put a mortar and pestle resting on a cannon when the cannon next to it clearly has a helmet on it? That makes no sense whatsoever.

It's a helmet

And since you can see who wrote this, putting my name down here is superfluous

[Donkees]

7. Looks too big for a bullet shaped cannon projectile, so maybe a container for gunpowder (?)

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. The white items just by the cannon wheels are powder horns. N/t

[Donkees]

13. I thought they were having wine :)

[pinboy3niner]

14. Wine and artillery--what could go wrong?

"Here, hold my wine glass and watch this..."

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. "Man, is that Spaniard gonna be pissed now that there's a hole in his boat!"

[pinboy3niner]

19. "Rut-roh! We'd better make up some more gunpowder with our mortar and pestle."

Hyena

[sarge43]

11. Canister shot?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/canister_shot

[Donkees]

12. Yes, I thought it might be one of those things :)