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  • Shell scraper

    Conch shell internal part, named columela, with spires attached which were used as scrappers. As scrapper they were used for…

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  • Shell tool point

    The central inner part of gasteropods like Strombus giga was used to make tools like points. Here is the end…

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  • Silex core

    Silex stones were broken into massive chunks which were then shaped into prismatic cores from witch blades were later chipped…

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  • Ceramic pot with bilateral anthropomorphic handles

    This vessels were manufactured to contain meals. Meals were cooked with meat, corn, tuber etc.. The meals were a mixture…

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  • Chican pot with incised decoration and anthropomorphic bilateral handles

    The society of the Taino who made ceramic vessels which style the archaeologist called chicoide, emerged as a continuation of…

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  • Double bodied pot with incised decoration

    Double bodied pot with incised decoration and lateral handles with anthropomorphic representation half bat half human from Chicoide style. The…

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  • Chicoide style ceramic vessel

    This is a boat shaped earthenware pot with bilateral anthropomorphic handles and incised decoration below the rim. This one is…

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  • Simple earthernware pot ostionoid style

    Earliest Caribbean farmers originated in the Orinocoan – Amazonian rain – forest areas. The societies who developed through time as…

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  • Ostionoid style ceramic vessel

    Possibly fishers and collectors had acquired the knowledge to make earthenware and thus developed simple forms. The first well made…

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  • Ceramic bottle

    Ceramic bottle as a mixture of Chican and ostionoid style. This bottle is representing the divisions of the Taino universe…

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  • Effigy vessel

    A frog effigy vessel from Taino culture. This culture had its origins in Northern south America. In the impoverished fauna…

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  • Zemis collection

    Zemies represented deities and each social group could choose their own zemies. There could exist rivalries among the various zemies.…

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  • Three pointers

    The first triangular three pointers existed in stone and shell and were small and undecorated. They date from the first…

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  • Small Zemi

    Zoomorphic representation of a small zemi. An animist conception of nature is characteristic for indigenous beliefs. Human traits are attributed…

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  • Shell Cup

    The indigenes elaborated cups using shells. The rounded form of the Charonia variegata gives a good possibility to make a…

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  • Wood Daily Life Instruments

    Wood was used for making many things which went from ceremonial to household artifacts, canoes for transportation and houses. One…

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  • Daily life instruments

    The indigenous people had no nails, no screws, no sticky tape, and no good glue, so they used string and…

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  • Decorated stone mortar

    The stone was first battered into general shape with irregular, discoidal or rectangular hammergrinder. Then it was pecked to create…

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  • Shell scraper for food preparation

    This shell scraper was a part of the bivalve codakia orbicularis. This was utilized in natural shape, taking advantage of…

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  • Decorated human skull

    Human skull decorated with reptilian figure representing a lizard. Shamans were individuals incharge of communicating with the gods, in order…

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  • Stone frog

    The conventionized image is that of a frog with fore and hindlegs bent inwards, as if preparing to jump. In…

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  • Body ornaments

    Part of an Shell bracelet manufactured from a shell of the ´Strombidae family. This family is composed of several genera…

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  • Bone spoons

    Spoon made of bone with anthropomorphic decoration. This artefact was part of the Cohoba ceremony helping to transfer the ground…

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