Posted 8 years ago
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These items were located during a recent vacation while visiting the first Americas.
These items are said to be Taino Indian artifacts circa 1600's.
They include,
1- a ritual artifact, the Cohoba stone inhaler of a hallucinogenic substances.
2 - a ritual bone vomative spacula and
3- a wooden carved stool.
Taino Indians, a subgroup of the Arawakan indians (a group of American Indians in northeastern South America) inhabited in the Great Antilles (comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispanola - Haiti and the Dominican Republic ; and Puerto Rico ) in the Caribbean Sea at the time when Christopher Columbus arrived yo the New World.
very interesting. i've never seen anything like the bronze piece in the americas.