Tainos

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Cohoba ritual
Diego Salcedo being drowned by the tainos

 
 
CAGUANA, PUERTO RICO
CAGUANA MUSEUM, PUERTO RICO
Caguana
Caguana Museum

 
 
TIBES CEREMONIAL CENTER, PUERTO RICO
TIBES MUSEUM, PUERTO RICO
Tibes Ceremonial Center
Tibes Museum

 
 
SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM, SUITLAND, MD.
JACANA, PORTUGUES RIVER, PONCE
Artifacts
Petroglyphs in Jácana, Ponce, P.R.

 
 
Anacaona Stone, Corral de los Indios, D.R.

 
 
     Stalagmite carved with human figure. Cueva Zemi, La
     Patana, Baracoa. Taken to the Smithsonian by Harrington.
    Stalagmite carved with human figure. Cueva Zemi, La
    Patana, Baracoa. Taken to the Smithsonian by Harrington.

 


BOOKS
Fewkes, Jesse Walter. The aborigines of Porto Rico and neighboring islands (1907)
Harrington, M. R. Cuba Before Columbus, Part I, Vol. II (1921)
 

Maps

Chiefs

Daily Life

Ballcourts

Conucos
 

MUSEUM OF THE DOMINICAN MAN, SANTO DOMINGO
Axes
Ballcourt
Burials in situ
Cemis
Figurines
Graters
Necklaces
Pendants
Pottery
Sculpted Heads
Yokes
 

ARTIFACTS
Buren
Cohoba
Deities
Duhos
Dinnerware
    Bowls
    Dishes
    Spoons
Effigies
   Animal Effigy Vessels
    Effigy Axes
    Human Effigies
    Human Effigy Vessels
Food Processing Tools
Celts
Cemis
Graters (Zemi, Anthropomorphic, and Stone)
Mortars (Anthropomorphic and Stone)
Pottery
Pestles (Zemi, Anthropomorphic and Stone)
Jewelry
    Amulets (Shell and Stone)
    Ear Ornaments
    Necklaces
    Pendants (Gold, Shell, Stone)
Stamps
Stone Weights
Vomit Spatulas
Wooden Rattle
Yokes
 

VIDEOS
3D Model of the Petroglyph Pool Area Carvings at the Virgin Islands National Park (1:07 min.)
Taíno Museum - Carved Skull (1:40 min.)
Taíno Museum 2014 - Help building for Taíno Museum in Haiti (2:02 min.)
Petroglyphs in Taino Indian cave Arecibo, Puerto Rico: "La Cueva del Indio" (2:32 min.)
Petroglyphs inside Taino indian cave in Arecibo, Puerto Rico: "La Cueva del Indio" (2:48 min.)
Taíno Museum - Carved Skull, Wood Pipes, Talking Stick (2:38 min.)
Native People of Puerto Rico [Petroglyphs] (3:32 min.)
The History & Languages of the Indigenous Island Natives [Lesser & Greater Antilles] (6:40 min.)
Taino Indians Counted Out Of Existence (7:47 min.)
Digitizing Petroglyphs in Puerto Rico [Featurette] (8:10 min.)
Lost History: Rediscovering the Taíno People Part 1 (8:33 min.)
Lost History: Rediscovering the Taíno People Part 2 ( min.)
Beyond Extinction: Consciousness of Taíno and Caribbean Indigeneity (Bilingual, 12:39 min.)
Latest on Taíno DNA scientific studies (27:00)
"HERENCIA TAINA" (FILME DOCUMENTAL, RICARDO ALEGRIA) (Español, 27:08)
Center for Visualization: Digitizing Petroglyphs in Puerto Rico (27:32 min.)
Digitizing Petroglyphs in Puerto Rico (28:12 min.)
BBC Spirits of the Jaguar: Hunters of the Caribbean Sea (49:08 min.)
SMITHSONIAN: Caribbean Indigenous Legacies Project 12 2013 (2 hrs.)

Taíno Rock Art of the Dominican Republic (5:51 min.)
Taino Rock Art from the Dominican Republic: Part 2, Petroglyphs (4:22 min.)
Taíno Rock Art of the Dominican Republic-- Part 3 Pictographs (11:12 min.)

The Tainos Part 1 By Iroqua (6:35 min.)
The Tainos Part 2 By Iroqua (5:25 min.)
The Tainos Part 3 By Iroqua (7:11 min.)
 

JOURNAL ARTICLES (English)
Atkinson, Lesley-Gail. Taíno Influence on Jamaican Folk traditions [Jamaica National Heritage Trust, May 2010]
Alonso, Orencio Miguel. Discovery of a Pre-Columbian Gold Figurine in Cuba (American Antiquity, April 1950)
Arrom, Jose J. Taíno Mythology: Notes on the Supreme Being (Latin American Literary Review, Spring 1980)
Berman, Mary Jane and Charlene Dixon Hutcheson. Impressions of a Lost Technology: A Study of Lucayan-Taíno Basketry (Journal of Field Archaeology, Winter 2000)
Cosculluela, J. A. Prehistoric Cultures of Cuba (American Antiquity, July 1946)
Deagan, Kathleen. Reconsidering Taíno Social Dynamics after Spanish Conquest: Gender and Class in Culture Contact Studies  (American Antiquity, October 2004)
Fewkes, J. Walter. Prehistoric Culture of Cuba (American Anthropologist, Oct.-Dec. 1904)
Frassetto, Monica Flaherty. A Preliminary Report on Petroglyphs in Puerto Rico (American Antiquity, January 1960)
Golding-Frankson, Dianne T. Jamaican Taíno 'Shellsmithing' Techniques Explored: A Study in Method (Caribbean Quarterly, June 2009)
Keegan, William F. Central Plaza Burials in Saladoid Puerto Rico: An Alternative Perspective (Latin American Antiquity, June 2009)
_____ and Morgan D. Maclachlan. The Evolution of Avunculocal Chiefdoms: A Reconstruction of Taino Kinship and Politics (American Anthropologist, Sept. 1989)
Poole, Robert M. What Became of the Taíno? Smithsonian Magazine, Oct. 2011
Pospisil, M. F. Physical Anthropological Research in Indian Remnants in Eastern Cuba (Current Anthropology, April 1971)
Rampersad, Sabrina R. Targeting the Jamaican Ostionoid: The Blue Marlin Archaeological Project (Caribbean Quarterly, June 2009)
Samson, Alice V. M. and Bridget M. Waller. Not Growling but Smiling: New Interpretations of the Bared-Teeth Motif in the Pre-Columbian Caribbean (Current Anthropology, June 2010)
Schwantes, Katharine. Caves, Plazas and Gods: The Impact of Geomorphology on Taino Utilization of Ceremonial Sites (2011)
Siegel, Peter E. Contested Places and Places of Contest: The Evolution of Social Power and Ceremonial Space in Prehistoric Puerto Rico (Latin American Antiquity, Sept. 1999)
 

ARTICLES (English)
The Tainos
The Spanish Conquest of the Tainos
Dryland or “One/Long Bubby Susan”
Mining Threatens Ancient Cave Art in Caribbean (Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2001)
US Smithsonian Museum Returns Native Bones to Cuba (Tehran Times, June 22, 2002)
Smithsonian returns Taino Indian remains to descendants in Cuba (Florida Sun Sentinel, Jan. 13, 2003)
Historians work to set record straight on Cuba's Taino Indians (The State [Columbia, SC], Aug. 17, 2004)
Puerto Rico archeological find mired in politics (Miami Herald, July 1, 2008)
Taino Petroglyphs: Art For The Spirit (Kingston Gleaner, Jan. 11, 2015)
 

ARTICLES (Spanish)
Ciego de Avila: Hallan uno de los mayores sitios aborígenes del Caribe (Granma Diario, junio 11, 2001)
Matanzas: Reconstruyen apariencia facial de un aborigen cubano (Giron, marzo 22, 2012)
 

WEB LINKS
Taino Legacies
Historia Taina
The Jatibonicu Taino Tribal Nation
The Jatibonicù Taino Tribal Band of New Jersey
Tibes Ceremonial Center, Ponce, Puerto Rico