- TAINO (C. 1000-1500 CE) PIPE W. SKELETAL
TRANSFORMATION...Taino (c. 1000-1500 CE) Pipe w. Skeletal Transformation. A transforming skeletal figure embraces the bowl. Appears to be a human to frog metamorphosis. Two...
[more like this] - TAINO (C. 1000-1500 CE) DOUBLE CHAMBERED
BOWLTaino (c. 1000-1500 CE). An elaborate double chambered figural bowl. Featuring two rhinoceros iguanas as handles. The rhinoceroses iguana still lives in the Dominican...
[more like this] - TAINO (C. 1000-1500 CE) FROG PIPETaino
(c. 1000-1500 CE) Frog mother pipe. Bowl features frog face while long arm reach from sides of bowl to center of stem. Stem has 3 bands of symbolic ideograms. Jasper like...
[more like this] - TAINO (C. 1000-1500 CE) BAT-SHAPED COHOBA
BOWL, 10.5"Taino (c. 1000-1500 CE). A wonderfully conceived masterpiece of Taino art. Simple yet elegant. A bat shaped shallow cohoba bowl. Used to contain the hallucinogen...
[more like this] - TAINO, LARGE MUSEUM QUALITY STONE BOWL.
SINCE THEinside of the vessel is polished, it was likely used to hold cohoba. The bowl is semi-ovate with a 1.6" inclined rim that rubs around the bowl and is completely incised...
[more like this] - RARE TAINO WOODEN BOWL Taino Culture,
Dominican Republic, Caribbean,13th?15th century, of tapered round form, with Zem Mask lugs, 2 1/4" x 6 1/2" diam, weathered, checked, three holes from later mounting....
[more like this] - RARE TAINO WOODEN BOWL Taino Culture,
Dominican Republic, Caribbean, 13th?15th century, of ovoid round form, with two Zemi Mask lugs, 5" x 8 1/2" diam, 10 1/2" wide at lugs, weathered, checked, some loss....
[more like this] - TAINO SMALL BLACK STONE BOWL Offertory
bowl with sharp inverted rim, head and arms of figures rising up at each end, 1 3/4" x 6 1/4" x 4 3/4"....
[more like this] - SMALL TAINO VESSEL. CIRCA 800–1500
AD. THE VESSELis made from siliceous sandstone. It has two full figure, anthropic forms and an individual head. It was probably used for ritual consumption of a hallucinogen...
[more like this] - ELABORATE TAINO 2 HEADED SHAMAN'S BOWL,
POSSIBLYfor ceremonial consumption of the hallucinogen cohoba. 6 1/2" long. Pre-Columbian. The paired heads reference duality, the cosmological belief of pair opposites. Both...
[more like this] - TAINO, SMALL FIGURAL STONE LIME VESSEL
WITHanthropic head on front, and legs on opposite side. Pre-Columbian. The bowl is ovate. Possibly contained lime to mix with cohoba. Lime helped to neutralize digestive stomach...
[more like this] - TAINO, LARGE CEREMONIAL COHOBA BOWL
USED FORcommunal consumption. Two anthropic half forms decorate each end of the bowl. Thin arms reach to the corners of the mouths. The bowls edges are incised with complex...
[more like this] - TAINO CEREMONIAL BOWL, TWO FULL ANTHROPIC
FIGURESgrace the edge interspersed with bands of interlocking bird heads. Rests on 4 nubby feet. Made of pecked diorite-like stone. 3 1/4" high, 6 3/4" wide, 6 3/4" deep....
[more like this] - TAINO STONE LADLE, HANDLE THE SHAPE
OF A FROGwhose arms extend onto the bowl. Curvilinear design band runs around the rim. Cracked on one side but solid. Andesite. 2 1/2" high, 8 1/2" wide, 6" deep. From the...
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