Taino Pestle

A Taino pestle with a Zemi figure on top of handle. Dimensions: 5-1/2" H; Weight: 1 lb 15 oz. Provenance: Ex. Private collection, Bronx, NY NOTE: This lot has a reserve.

Stone pestle, ca. 1000 - 1492 A.D. Carved hard stone animal head finial with long neck and ovoid grinding surface that is smooth from use. Dimensions: 3-1/2" H; Weight: 8 oz. Provenance: Ex. Collectio

A Taino Pestle with bird heads, 8" H 5 lb. 6 oz Provenance: Ex collection, Bronx, NY

7 1/4" Owl Effigy Pestle. Taino. Hispanolia. Ex-Sardofsky

A stone janus face mortal pestle, 7-1/2" H; 2 lbs. 14 oz. Provenance: Ex collection, New York, NY

9 1/4" Taino Effigy Pestle. Hispaniola. Dual heads decorate the top of this flared base example. Excellent polish, some old use wear to base. Ex-Jeff Sardofsky

8.3/8" Taino Effigy Pestle. Hispaniola. Pre-Colombian Maul with Amazing Human / Frog Effigy which decorate the top of this flared base example. Excellent polish. Some new grinding to base.

Pre-Columbian, Caribbean Islands, Taino people, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A hand-carved stone pestle with a dense, egg-shaped body surmounted by the head of a mythological deity known as a zemi. It is poss

Pre-Columbian, Caribbean Islands, Taino people, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A hand-carved pestle that is pecked and polished into a sturdy form surmounted by an abstract avian head with enormous eyes, perhap

From the 2nd to 8th century, an early Taino grinding pestle probably for maize or corn. Unmistakably phallic the stone a type of speckled granite. East central Dominican Republic coast. 4 1/2 inches l

3” Stone Effigy Head from top of pestle Taino

Taino Stone Cohoba Pestle, with Full Figure Shaman or Cacique at top. Nicely detailed body with expressive face. The skeletal body denotes the transcendental experience of the hallucinogen cohoba wher

Prehistoric, Extremely rare hand carved basalt stone pestle with zoomorphic or humanoid head and bell shaped base. Ex. John Cockrell collection, Lake Oswego, Oregon. 6" x 3-3/4"

Pre-Columbian, Caribbean Islands, Taino people, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. An astounding ceremonial stone pestle pecked and polished into the form of an owl! The tool's body is skillfully hand-carved with a

Taino carved stone Cohoba ceremonial pestle; the tapered cylindrical form surmounted by two owl heads; circa A.D. 1000-1500Provenance:Collection of Flor Maria Alvarado and Carlton Rood, author of A Do

Pre-Columbian, Caribbean, perhaps Dominican Republic, Taino (Arawak) people, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A hand-carved hardstone pestle with a flared pounding face, a conical body, and a finial depicting an

Taino Big Beak Bird Pestle (1000-1500CE) Possibly a Toucan, as they were kept as pets. This ceremonial piece was used to crush cohoba seeds, the hallucinogen used by the Taino. Birds were considered g

Of bold and exuberant form, likely for communal use or implement of a Cucique or his high priest. A ceremonial pestle, under custody and care of a high born, dates late 2nd to 3rd phase from around 11

TAINO DOUBLE ZEMI-HEADED STONE PESTLECaribbean, Pre-ColumbianCeremonial pestle hand-carved from rich green stone.Height 7.25”. Base diameter 3.75”.

Of bold and exuberant form, likely for communal use or implement of a Cacique or his high priest. A ceremonial pestle, under custody and care of a high born, dates late 2nd to 3rd phase from around 11

1st millennium AD. A large carved fine-grained green basalt Taino or Archaic Period pestle depicting a human-headed axolotl with its legs tucked underneath the body, raised ribbed detailing to the spi

Taino Pounder w/ Frog, Puerto Rico (900-1500 AD)This pestle is a fine example of Taino craftmanship, used to grind cohoba seads in preperation for hallucinogenic journeys. The stylized coqui frog sits

An important Full Figure Anthropic pestle featuring Baibrama, god of fertility and cassava. The pestle represents a cohoba stand, symbolically denoting its use for crushing cohoba seeds to powder for

PESTLE USED TO CRUSH THE HALLUCINOGENIC SEEDS OF THE COHOBA TREE. THE EXTREMELY LARGE HEAD SYMBOLIZES THE HEAD AS THE CENTER OF THE EXPANSIVE MIND. EYE AND MOUTH SURROUNDS AS WELL AS A WELL DEFINED HE