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Taino vessel with anthropomorphic representation

This image represents a chief. Many Taino works of art belong to the chief, the cacique. The Taino culture reached its highest development in the island of Hispaniola. It is difficult to mark the beginning of the Taino. Their society emerged as a continuation of Caribbean prehistory for several thousand years. In some cases artifacts…

Shard of flat earthenware circular dish for cooking. Manioc was the main crop of the Taino. The roots were grated on a grinder, put through a large wicker strainer called a cibuacan to squeeze out its poisonous juice, and finally cooked on a buren. The result was a kind of bread called casabe. There were…

These axes had the shape of a petal from a flower and were generally manufactured from stone. They were celts hafted into wooden handles. They were used to clear land, carve canoes or other wooden objects and cut manioc roots. The very polished ones appear to have had ceremonial functions. They existed in all farmers…

The snake is part of an important mythological triumvirate who dominated the cosmology of the people from the Orinoco-Amazon region. Most of the culture groups who arrived in the Antillean islands originated from this region. The snake exemplified by the anaconda represented the subaquatic world. Since anacondas did not exist in the islands this specie…

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…

Shamans played an important role in Taíno society as medical practitioners, using an hallucinogenic preparation named "Cohoba" to get in trance and to contact the spirits for help to determine the cause of the illnesses. The Shaman recited sacred chants accompanied of maracas to play a rhythm. He produced a stone amulet and which he…

The Taíno placed strong importance on ancestor worship. They believed in afterlife and great care was given to the dead. Skull designs represent dead ancestors. Zemies who represented ancestors were objects of great power and were perceived as supernatural beings who could help the person who possessed them.

This wooden seat was used by chiefs in the Caribbean Taino culture during ceremonial communication with the spirit world. Wooden seat carved in the shape of an ancestor spirit by the Taino, one of the pre-European, native Caribbean peoples. This wooden seat known as a duho was sculpted by a Taino artisan. The Taino were…

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This wooden seat was used by chiefs in the Caribbean Taino culture during ceremonial communication with the spirit world. It is sculpted from the dense tropical hardwood guayacan (Guaiacum officinale) and is in the form of a powerful male figure crouching on all fours. When Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492, much of the Caribbean was…

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Taino vessel with anthropomorphic representation

Food preparation on Buren

Petaloid axes

Wooden snake

Globular bowl with geometric design

Small stone zemi

Little bone zemi with skull head

Wooded Duho

Ceramic Vessel

Duhos – Ritual Seat

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