PRE COLUMB TAINO COMMUNAL COHOBA SNUFFING VESSEL

Title: Pre-Columbian Taíno Cohoba Snuffing Anthropomorphic Stand Date/Period: 800 to 1500 AD Dimension: 5 inches in height (the figure will sit on its own) Materials: Heavy silicified sandstone with

Taino People, Classic Period (c.1000-1500 AD). Pottery Communal Cohoba Inhaling Vessel. Very similar to the wooden and stone vessels with incurvate sides. Bird head Adorno, large symbolic iconographs

Taino Cohoba Vessel, Frog Man Transformation (1000-1500 CE). A Taino personal cohoba vessel, likely used for snuffing measured amounts of the ritual drug. A carefully carved Frog Man transformation; g

Taino Anthropic Snuffing Vessel (1000-1500 CE). The retention hole is relatively small suggesting this was a dosing vessel used to maintain the cohoba illumination. Made of a rich variegated serpentin

Title: Circa 1000-1400 A.D. Pre-Columbian Taino Cohoba Shaman Smoking Pipe Lava Rock Figure Description: Circa 1000-1400 A.D. Pre-Columbian Taino Cohoba Shaman Smoking Pipe Lava Rock Figure Date/Perio

Taino (1000-1500 CE) Cohoba Frogmen Vessel, striated calcite. The ovular vessel with flanking full figure frogman handles. Since frogs were fertility symbols this vessel was probably used to hold coho

Collection of Pre-Columbian Taino style pottery vessels, Hispaniola, ca. 1000 CE. From Left to right, 1st-11-3/4"x3-3/8", 2nd 5-1/8"x7-3/4", 3rd 8-1/2"x3-3/4" height.

Taino. Unique Wooden (lignum vitae) cohoba serving vessel depicting shamanic human to crocodile transformation. Cohoba was the hallucinogen used by the Taino to reach a transcendental state. No other

Taino Large Standing Anthropic Cohoba Inhaler. For the snuffing of the powdered hallucinogen. Strong skeletal facial features. Pierced at jaw line and wrists. Arms combine with hands to form "spirit f

Taino Pre-Columbian Twin Bird Head Cohoba Inhaler, Published. The heads gently part to access the inhaling ports. The top of each beak is pierced creating eyes for a second bird encompassing the beak.

Taino. An exquisite cohoba stand made to be used to hold vessels containing the hallucinogen cohoba. The flat head supporting the bowl or vessel. These were usually made of wood, stone examples are ex

Taino Cohoba Inhaler. Well made with Anthropomorphic figure draper between snuffing ports, hands resting on back of head. Head dominates design as center of entropic visual experience. Water symbols s

STAND. ON REVERSE A BIRD HEAD I HAS BEEN CARVED AS AN ANIMAL ALLY. THE SHAMAN/PRIEST KNEES IN A REVERENT POSE. THE SKELETAL HEAD SYMBOLIZING SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION VIA COHOBA SNUFFING. DEEP SET EYES

Taino Pre-Columbian Full Figure Anthropic Spatulate Form, possibly for purging prior to taking cohoba. Pierced eyes. Hands hold a medallion like object. The legs resemble those of a frog . A abstract

Pre Colombian Taino Hispaniola terra cotta pottery shards including heads and faces, mostly vessel handle pieces. Eleven in the lot. Varying sizes.

Pre Colombian Taino Hispaniola terra cotta pottery shards including heads and faces, mostly vessel handle pieces. Thirteen in the lot. Varying sizes.

Pre Colombian Taino Hispaniola terra cotta pottery shards including heads and faces, mostly vessel handle pieces. Twelve in the lot. Varying sizes.

Taino Pre-Columbian, Fully Formed Anthropo-Zoomorphic Lime Pot. Entirely Incised in symbols and anatomical features. Swirl eyes symbolize drug intoxication. Small vessels similar to this pot were used

Taino Petite Bird Man Cohoba Inhaler. Probably representing a woodpecker, credited in Taino mythology with opening first women to male accessibility. Bird men were shaman in most pre-Hispanic indigeno

Pre-Columbian, Caribbean, Taino, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. A large fragment from a hand-built pottery vessel with excellent preservation to the rim and shoulder motifs. The surface is incised with a geomet

Pre-Columbian, Hispaniola, ca. 1200 to 1500 CE. This is a pair of ovoid pottery bowls. One is of a boat shape with figural heads on the rim that may represent ancestors or deities (known as zemis). Th

Grouping of Two Tribal Tableware to Include a Pre Columbian Moche Figurative Vessel together with a Taino Terracotta Figurine. Vessel measures 9-1/4" x 4-1/2" x 5-1/2". Figurine measures 7" x 5-1/2".

Taino. A short Type 3 Cohoba inhaler featuring a skeletal frog/human persona. The body is more erect than usual and covers the entire snuffing channel. The figure has extended arms and looks skyward i

Taino Anthropic full figure lime pot. Lime vessels were used to mix powder shell with cohoba. The mixture activated the psychoactive drug bufotenine contained in cohoba. This example is exceptionally