full title: 'Treasures... of black wood, brilliantly polished': five examples of Taino sculpture from the tenth-sixteenth century Caribbean
Posted on 08/27/2011 9:53:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Five wooden sculptures from the pre-contact Caribbean, long held in museum collections, are here dated and given a context for the first time. The examples studied were made from dense Guaiacum wood, carved, polished and inlaid with shell fastened with resin. Dating the heartwood, sapwood and resins takes key examples of 'Classic' Taíno art back to the tenth century AD, and suggests that some objects were treasured and refurbished over centuries. The authors discuss the symbolic properties of the wood and the long-lived biographies of some iconic sculptures.
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full title: 'Treasures... of black wood, brilliantly polished': five examples of Taino sculpture from the tenth-sixteenth century Caribbean
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What's "pre-Contact?" It that a PC term for "Pre-Columbian?"
If by “PC” you mean “post-contact”, then yes.
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.
Pre-Contamination
Pre-Crucifization
Pre-Caucastrophe
It’s Taino-mite, as Jimmy Walker used to say.
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....
That is called your reticular activating system.
Indeed.
I am now concerned that my beloved Les Paul might be contraband.
And it’s too big to flush if the feds show up at my door.
:’)
Have fun!
I think those were people that the Caribs liked to eat.
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.
I guess they were right. :’)
Amen!
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