TAINO Greater Antilles (Santo Domingo Puerto Rico?) - Lot 159

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TAINO Greater Antilles (Santo Domingo Puerto Rico?) - Lot 159
TAINO Greater Antilles (Santo Domingo Puerto Rico?) Very low "Duho" ceremonial seat with backrest tilted backwards Dehydrated wood gayac zoomorphic quadripod engraved and polished in a single block Used by shamans during ecstatic trances Circa 1400 A.D. Late period of Spanish colonization H. 29 cm - L. 52.5 cm Attached: Small wooden bowl decorated with two zemi heads H. 7.5 cm - L. 25.5 cm (broken) Provenance : -Gédéon Bousquel explosives engineer active in Mexico, Cuba and Santo Domingo Collected in the first third of the 20th century -Max ITZIKOVITZ Collection
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