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Puerto Rican art is the diverse historic collection of visual and hand-crafted arts originating from the island. The art of the Puerto Ricans (Spanish: puertorriqueños or boricuas) draws from the various cultural traditions of the indigenous Taino people, as well as the history of the island as the subject of various other nations.
Taíno is a term referring to a historic Indigenous people of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by their descendants and Taíno revivalist communities. [2] [3] [4] Indigenous people in the Greater Antilles did not refer to themselves as Taínos, as the term was coined by the anthropologist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in ...
Taino Zemi – Left Side, circa 800 AD and 1500 AD. For millennia, the predominant inhabitants of Ayíti/Quisqueya were the Taíno civilization. They were an Arawak people indigenous to the Caribbean islands, whose ancestors settled some 2,500 years before Columbus, having migrated from South America and replacing an earlier Archaic age people that had been wiped out. [4]
The Taíno ("Taíno" means "peace"), [2] were peaceful seafaring people and distant relatives of the Arawak people of South America. [3] [1] Taíno society was divided into two classes: Nitaino (nobles) and the Naboria (commoners). Both were governed by chiefs known as caciques, who were the maximum authority in a Yucayeque (village).
The Pomier Caves are a series of 55 caves located north of San Cristobal in the south of the Dominican Republic.They contain the largest collection of rock art in the Caribbean created since 2,000 years ago primarily by the Taíno people but also the Kalinago people and the Igneri, the pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and some of the Lesser Antilles.
Turey El Taíno is a Puerto Rican publication that remains the most long-standing local comic to date. [1] Originally available in stand-alone magazines and in a strip featured on the now defunct El Mundo newspaper, Turey debuted in news stands on October 26, 1989.
The oldest artworks found have been attributed to the Saladoid people, the ancestors of the Taino people; their ceramics, carved stones, and shell objects have been found in archaeological sites dating back to between 500 and 250 B.C. [2] A number of regional ceramic traditions developed throughout the next 2,000 years. The height of pre ...
English: Distribution of Taino, Caribbean and Guanahatabey Arawaks in the Antilles, at the time of the arrival of the Spaniards. The map was reworked from information appearing in Saber Ver No. 21 (dedicated to Taino art), March-April 1995, p.