Full Size Replicas
Scale Size Replicas
Art Gallery
 (Senior Artist and Archaoelogy Researcher Antonio Blasini at Lake Titicaca in Peru) Antonio Blasini Rivera has been studying the origins of the Taino Culture and reproducing their art for 35 years. Founder of the Taino Museum, his investigations are published in three mayor books, "The Eagle and the Jaguar", "The True Origins of the Taino Culture", and his "Dictionary of Selected Taino Voices." Better known as the "Champollion" of the Mayor Antilles, Blasini shocks archaeologists when he deciphers Taino hieroglyphs and the mysterious Nazca drawings from Peru using Taino codes from the marble replicas he keeps in his museum.
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Cemi: Three pointed stone idol carved in rock. | ||||
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Lithic Ring: Ceremonial object carved in rock. | ||||
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Lithic Elbow: Ceremonial object carved in rock. | ||||
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Ceremonial Crafts: Crafts made out from rock, wood and manatee bones. They include chieftain axes, canes and seats (duhos), mortars, pipes, body painting stampers, phallic objects used in rites to deflower virgins, also by chieftain wives. | ||||
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Cohoba Crafts: Crafts made out from rock, wood or manatee bones, utilized in the main ceremonial and religious ritual of the Tainos. They include idols, vomitive spatulas, rattles, mortars and Cohoba inhalators. Cohoba is an hallucinative mixture made from the seed of the Cohoba tree, tobacco and shell remains, inhaled only by the chieftain, the medicine man and members of the royal court, in order to communicate with the gods. | ||||
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Guanines: Crafts made mainly out of shells and manatee bones, mostly used as pendants for spiritual protection. | ||||
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Macori Head: Cemi named after being found in the Macori Province of the Dominican Republic. | ||||
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Art Galleries: A series of Digital Art work by Antonio Blasini Jr. entitled "Virgins of the Areyto", inspired from the Taino Indian dances, customs and traditions. |
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Mercedita, Puerto Rico 00715-0479
tony@tainomuseum.org