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Taino : Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean
Taino PreColumbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean Author:Ricardo Alegria, Jose Arrom Of Arawak descent, the Taino whose ancestors migrated to the Caribbean from the Amazon Basin in South America during the 6th century were the first people encountered by Christopher Columbus. Although they ceased to exist as an autonomous society within 60 years of the arrival of Spanish colonizers, the Taino skilled agricul... more »turists and navigators and accomplished weavers, potters, and carvers developed a complex political, religious, and social system, and made a substantial contribution to the biological, cultural, and linguistic makeup of large areas of the Caribbean. To this date, Caribbean communities in the Antilles and in New York and other large American cities exhibit the survival of Taino practices in their worldviews, religious beliefs, language, music, and food.« less