full title: 'Treasures... of black wood, brilliantly polished': five examples of Taino sculpture from the tenth-sixteenth century Caribbean
full title: 'Treasures... of black wood, brilliantly polished': five examples of Taino sculpture from the tenth-sixteenth century Caribbean
I had never heard of the Taino until yesterday when I was reading out of curiosity about the little island of Mona between Puerto Rico proper and Hispaniola.
Weird how you read something so off-the-wall and suddenly it pops up everywhere.
They better watch out if they try and cross any borders with this wood unless they have documents showing it was harvested from a sustainable growth forest etc.
I’m thinking of a trip down to my in-laws place in the Southern Bahamas. The hurricane passed over them and could have tossed some things up on the beach....
One theory of why a small group of Spaniards was able to subjugate a much larger Taino population is that the Indians spotted several of Columbus’ seamen who had lost legs in various misadventures.
As the Spaniards hopped around on wooden peg legs or with the assistance of a crutch, the Indians thought they were their one-legged gods, who had returned to rule them.
