TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bercht,Fatima
ED  - Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.)
TI  - Taíno: pre-Columbian art and culture from the Caribbean 
SN  - 1885254822
AV  - F1619.2.T3 T37 1997
U1  - 704.03979 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York, El Museo del Barrio
PB  - Monacelli Press
KW  - Taino Indians
KW  - Indian art
KW  - Art, Caribbean
N1  - Published to accompany an exhibition of the same title organized by El Museo del Barrio, New York, Sept. 25, 1997-Mar. 29, 1998; Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189); Preface and Acknowledgments --; Foreword --; The Caribbean before European Conquest: A Chronology --; An Introduction to Taino Culture and History --; The Daily Life of the Taino People --; The Taino Social and Political Order --; To Be Seated with "Great Courtesy and Veneration": Contextual Aspects of the Taino Duho --; The Creation Myths of the Taino --; Taino Stone Collars, Elbow Stones, and Three-Pointers --; Zemi Three-Pointer Stones --; Ancestor Worship and Cosmology among the Taino --; The Bat and the Owl: Nocturnal Images of Death --; Just Wasting Away: Taino Shamanism and Concepts of Fertility --; Epilogue: The Beaded Zemi in the Pigorini Museum --; Appendices --; Selected Bibliography
ER  -