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Portfolio Category: Ceramic

Ceramic pot with bilateral anthropomorphic handles

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 of various ingredients and prepared like a soup. Manioc was the principal ingredient. The shortcoming of manioc is its low protein content so other sources of protein had been added to the garden as protein…
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Double bodied pot with incised decoration

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 bat is a common motif in Taino representational art. These bat – head adornos were affixed to the sides of pots where they communicated the Taino worldview while serving as handles. The importance of bats…
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Chicoide style ceramic vessel

Chicoide style ceramic vessel
This is a boat shaped earthenware pot with bilateral anthropomorphic handles and incised decoration below the rim. This one is of Chicoide style, however boat shaped vessel were developed during the Ostionoide culture which appeared in Puerto Rico around the seventh century AD.
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Simple earthernware pot ostionoid style

Simple earthernware pot ostionoid style
Earliest Caribbean farmers originated in the Orinocoan – Amazonian rain – forest areas. The societies who developed through time as their successors shared common belief systems, traits, styles, and conceptions of nature, although with slight but noticeable variations. The patterns of daily life are often similar so big open pots like this one appears in…
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Ceramic bottle

Ceramic bottle
Ceramic bottle as a mixture of Chican and ostionoid style. This bottle is representing the divisions of the Taino universe into male - female, living - dead, and cultural – super supernatural spheres. The vessels shoulders represent female breast, and the spout represents a male phallus. Faces representing twins, look off in opposite directions to…
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Ceramic Vessel with tortoise representation

Ceramic Vessel with tortoise representation
Many Taino objects are in the shape of turtles, an important animal in Taino creation myths. The female tortoise, a feature common to other universal myths, takes on a human role and becomes the Taino Eve.
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Globular bowl with geometric design

Globular bowl with geometric design
Amerindian ceramic vessel were mostly formed with the coil method, in which strips of wet clay are jointed in circular patterns fused together to make cups, bowls, jars etc. The geometric design of this bowl shows a sequence of points under the rim. This appears most frequently in the Meillac culture, which is the one…
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Ceramic Vessel

Ceramic Vessel
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Frog

Frog
Fragment of ceramic vessel that shows a zoomorphic decoration applied just under the rim of the bowl. It represents the head and arm of a batrachian, interpreted as a frog. This animal figures the woman in South American indigenous mythology. The style suggests that this fragment belongs to the Meillacoide culture, distributed through the northern…
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