Zemi
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A zemi or cemi was a deity or ancestral spirit, and a sculptural object housing the spirit, among the Taíno people of the Caribbean. Cemi’no or Zemi’no is the plural word for the spirits.
Zemi figure, Ironwood with shell inlay. 27 in. (68.5 cm) high. Dominican Republic: 15th-16th century. The bowl atop the figure's head was used to hold cohoba during rituals.
Taino Zemi mask from Walters Art Museum
Three-pointed sculpture with carved face c. 1000-1494 CE
Cohoba
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Cohoba is a Taíno transliteration for a ceremony in which the ground seeds of the cojóbana tree were used as a snuff via a Y-shaped snuff tube. Use of this substance produced a visionary or entheogeni
Zemi
…Zemi figure, Ironwood with shell inlay. 27 in. (68.5 cm) high. Dominican Republic: 15th-16th century. The bowl atop the figure's head was used to hold cohoba during rituals. Taino Zemi mask from Walters Art Museum A zemi or cemi (Taíno: [sɛmi]) was a deity or ancestral spirit, and a sculptural object housing…
A pictograph depicting cohoba located in the Pomier Caves
Carved spatulas were used to blend powdered herbs by Taíno