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The Taino People of the Caribbean Are NOT Extinct

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« Reply #45 on: March 01, 2008, 10:31:21 am »









The symbolism that these carved and painted images represent is difficult to interpret,
but they include both anthropomorphic (human forms) and animal imagery.

Hartford Cave on Rum Cay in the Bahamas is one of the most elaborately decorated and
included the representation of a canoe paddle (until it was hacked out of the wall and
brought to the New World Museum on San Salvador!).

Painted images on the walls of caves in the Dominican Republic are especially evocative.

One scene depicts the cohoba ritual in which the cacique ingested a hallucinogenic snuff
to induce a trance that facilitated his communication with the spirits.

When viewed in the flickering of torchlight the images appear to come alive.
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