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Taino: Pre-Columbian Art & Culture from the Caribbean/ Artes y Cultura Precolombinas Del Caribe Jose J. Arrom publisher: El Museo Del Barrio, New York NY exhbition catalogue september 27, 1997 - march 29, 1998. Card wraps with some edge scuffing else very good b/w and color PHOTOS ; text in English and Spanish; 56 pages. "Organized by El Museo del Barrio in New York to coincide with a major exhibition, this is the first comprehensive English-language publication on the fascinating legacy of Taíno art and culture. Showcasing over one hundred rare and beautiful ceremonial and domestic artworks and More... individual masterpieces of this ancient culture -- produced in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, and the Bahamas between A.D. 1200 and 1500 -- Taíno includes examples of finely detailed and polished sculptures carved in wood, precious ornaments of shell and bone, and ceramics decorated with animals, birds, and intricate geometric motifs. The contributors include ten of the foremost scholars of pre-Columbian culture and art, and an appendix features writings from Spanish explorers who had contact with the Taíno.Of Arawak descent, the Taíno -- whose ancestors migrated to the Caribbean from the Amazon Basin in South America during the sixth century -- were the first people encountered by Christopher Columbus. Although read more

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