This wooden seat known as a duho was sculpted by a Taino artisan. The Taino were one of the pre-European, native peoples of the Caribbean. It is carved in the shape of an ancestor spirit known as ...
On 10 November Christie’s is set to auction a trove of Taino and Pre-Columbian artefacts in Paris, but members of the Taino community hope to put a stop to the sale and have the works returned ...