| Description |
189 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Exhibitions |
Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title organized by El Museo del Barrio, New York, Sept. 25, 1997-Mar. 29, 1998. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189). |
| Contents |
Preface and acknowledgments / Susana Torruella Leval -- Foreword / Jeffrey Quilter -- The Caribbean before European conquest : a chronology / Samuel M. Wilson -- An introduction to Taíno culture and history / Ricardo E. Alegría -- The daily life of the Taíno people / Marcio Veloz Maggiolo -- The Taíno social and political order / Samuel M. Wilson -- To be seated with 'great courtesy and veneration': contextual aspects of the Taíno duho / Joanna M. Ostapkowicz -- The creation myths of the Taíno / José Juan Arrom -- Taíno stone collars, elbow stones, and three-pointers / Jeffery B. Walker -- Zemi three-pointer stones / Shirley McGinnis -- Ancestor worship and cosmology among the Taíno / Peter E. Siegel -- The bat and the owl : nocturnal images of death / Manuel A. García Arévalo -- Just wasting away : Taíno shamanism and concepts of fertility / Peter G. Roe -- Epilogue: The beaded zemi in the Pigorini Museum / Dicey Taylor, Marco Biscione, and Peter G. Roe -- Appendices / Translated by Susan G. Griswold. 1. Diario del primer viaje and others / Christopher Columbus -- 2. De Orbe Novo Decades / Pietro Martire d'Anghiera -- 3. Apologética historia de las Indias / Fray Bartolomé de las Casas. |
| Language |
English; appendices translated from Spanish and Latin. |
| Subject |
Taino Indians -- Exhibitions.
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Taino art -- Exhibitions.
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Taino art. (OCoLC)fst01142108
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Taino Indians. (OCoLC)fst01142099
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Bercht, Fatima.
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Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.)
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| Added Title |
Pre-Columbian art and culture from the Caribbean |
| ISBN |
1885254822 (Monacelli Press) |
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9781885254825 (Monacelli Press) |
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