Large RARE Republica Dominicana WOOD Nutcracker Bowl

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Nice vintage large nutcracker bowl. Rare design that is made of rich hardwood turned bowl with original brass tipped mallet. Center post has a large religious 25 Gramos coin in the center. Shield with cross in center. Measures 9 1/2 inches across and3 3/4 inches tall. Complete with cracking mallet with brass disks on head and carved leaf in handle. Shows some use but excellent condition with no chips orcracks. Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic (Spanish: RepÃºblica Dominicana, pronounced [re'puÎ²lika Ã°omini'kana]) is a Latin American country located in the Greater Antilles archipelago on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola . It shares the island with the Republic of Haiti , making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are split by two countries; the other is Saint-Martin/Sint Maarten. Hispaniola is the second-largest of the Greater Antilles, and lies west of Puerto Rico and east of Cuba and Jamaica .The Dominican Republic is the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas , its capital Santo Domingo , which was also the first colonial capital in the Americas . It is the site of the first cathedral, university, European-built road, European-built fortress, and more. For most of its independent history, the nation experienced political turmoil and unrest, suffering through many non-representative and tyrannical governments. However, since the death of military dictator Rafael LeÃ³nidas Trujillo in 1961, the Dominican Republic has moved toward representative democracy. History The TaÃnos The island of Hispaniola was inhabited by the TaÃnos, an Arawakan-speaking people, who may have arrived around A.D. 600, displacing earlier inhabitants. The TaÃnos lived in villages headed by chiefs and called the island Ayiti or Haiti ("mountainous land"), Bohio, and Quisqueya. By 1492 they were divided into five chiefdoms (cacicazgos in Spanish, from cacique, chief). T are widely varying estimates of the population of Hispaniola in 1492, including 100,000, 300,000 3 million, and 7-8 million. They engaged principally in farming and fishing, as well as hunting and gathering. Spanish rule Christopher Columbus landed at MÃ´le Saint-Nicolas on December 5, 1492, in his first voyage, and claimed the island for Spain . Nineteen days later, the Santa Maria ran aground near the present site of Cap-Haitien; Columbus was forced to leave 39 men, founding the settlement of La Navidad. He returned to Spain , voyaging back to America three more times. After initially friendly relations, the TaÃnos resisted the conquest. One of the earliest leaders to fight against the Spanish was the female Chief Anacaona of Xaragua, in the southwest, who married Chief Caonabo of Maguana, in the center and south of the island. The two fought hard against the Europeans; she was captured by the Spanish and executed in front of her people. Other notables who resisted include Chief Guacanagari, Chief Guama, and Chief Hatuey, who later fled to Cuba and helped fight the Spaniards t Chief Enriquillo fought victoriously against the Spaniards in the Baoruco Mountain Range, in the southwest, to gain freedom for himself and his people in a part of the island. The TaÃnos were by then nearly extinct. Most of the survivors mixed with runaway African slaves, called cimarrones, producing zambos. The mestizos increased in number as native women conceived to European men. By the mid-1500s the majority of TaÃno people had died out from mistreatment, disease, suicide, the breakup of family unity, starvation, forced labor, torture, and war with the Spaniards. In 1561 BartolomÃ© de las Casas wrote that when he reached Hispaniola in 1508 "T were 60,000 people living on this island, including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this?" Due to the total lack of previous interaction with Europeans, and hence no previous exposure... read more

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