Taíno : pre-Columbian art and culture from the Caribbean / edited by Fatima Bercht [and others] with contributions by Richardo E. Alegria [and others].

Contributor Bercht, Fatima.

Imprint:New York ; El Museo de Barrio : Monacelli Press, 1997.

Description189 p. : ill., some color ; 28 cm.

Note:Published to accompany an exhibition of the4 same title organized by El Museo del Barrio, New York, Sept. 25, 1997-Mar. 29, 1998.

Note:Preface and acknowledgments / Susana Torruella Leval -- Foreword / Jeffrey Quilter -- The Caribbean before European conquest: a chronology / Samuel M. Wilson -- An introduction to Tano culture and history / Ricardo E. Alegra -- The daily life of the Tano people / Marcio Veloz Maggiolo -- The Tano social and political order / Samuel M. Wilson -- To be seated with 'great courtesy and veneration': contextual aspects of the Tano duho / Joanna M. Ostapkowicz -- The creation myths of the Tano / Jos Juan Arrom -- Tano stone collars, elbow stones, and three-pointers / Jeffery B. Walker -- Zemi three-pointer stones / Shirley McGinnis -- Ancestor worship and cosmology among the Tano / Peter E. Siegel -- The bat and the owl: nocturnal images of death / Manuel A. Garca Arvalo -- Just wasting away: Tano 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. Apologtica historia de las Indias / Fray Bartolom de las Casas

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.

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