Ancient Precolumbian Taino Zemi Statue with wooden Stand

Statue

Pre-columbian

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ca. 18cm high

336gr

Rare ancient precolumbian Taino Zemi Stone Statue with a black wooden Stand. Stand is ca. 18cm high, Stone statue is ca. 12.5cm long. Total weigh is ca. 336 gram. The Taino Tribe is famous. The Taino of the Greater Antilles developed a lithic cult dedicated to the production of hallucinogenic ritual goods unlike anything seen in Mesoameica. As a result many stone, shell, wood and bone reliquary were sculpted as ritual display demanded. The dedication to stone as the chosen media elevates Taino religious implements to an aesthetic level rarely seen Amerindian art