PRECOLUMBIAN TAINO COHOBA CEREMONY SNUFFER

A magnificent Taino cohoba grinding dish from Hispaniola, ca. 1000 – 1500 AD. It is 7” long and was made from beautiful speckled greenstone. One side of a highly polished petaloid celt was careful

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

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 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

Taino. Anthropo-zoomorphic cohoba snuffer, type 1. Inhalers were used to consume the botanical hallucinogen cohoba. The triangulate nose points to a reptilian transition from human form. Subject pushe

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

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

BROAD ANTHROPIC FACE AND 2 NUBS REPRESENTING RESIDUAL LEGS. PROBABLY USED TO HOLD THE HALLUCINOGEN COHOBA FOR DISTRIBUTION DURING A DRUG INDUCED RITUAL. MADE OF A FINE GRAINED SILICIFIED SANDSTONE. LE

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.

A Taino Cohoba snuff receptacle. 3-1/2" H x 2-7/8" W Display stand included. Provenance: Ex collection, New York, N.Y.

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

Taino Anthropic Cohoba Inhaler (1000-1500 CE). Hands behind head. Inhalers or snuffers were used to ingest the hallucinogen, cohoba, during ritual gatherings. Complex symbols surround ports. Size: 5''

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. 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

Hispaniola, Greater Antilles Islands, Taino/ Arawak Indians, ca. 1000-1500 CE. This striking example features a stylized anthropomorphic face that depicts a skull-like human face with circular sunken

aino Stone Anthropomorphic Celt from Hispaniola, ca. 800-1400 A.D. A finely carved gray stone example depicting a stylized human figure clasping his hands on his waist and legs in a fetal position. We

A Taino Zemi head, flat carved stone with classic Zemi facial features. Dimensions: 7-3/8" H x 6' W; Weight: 4 lbs 3 oz. Provenance: Ex private collection, Bronx, NY NOTE: This lot has a reserve.

Pre-columbian Taino Zemi from the Dominican Republic, ca.1000-1500 A.D. Crouching skeletal figure with incised geometric decoration. Large and scarce example! 8-9/16" in height.

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

Pre-Columbian Taino Stone Duho from Hispaniola, Greater Antilles Islands, Taino/ Arawak Indians, ca. 1000-1500 CE. Carved stone duho depicting a stylized anthropomorphic face that depicts a skull-like

Hispaniola, Greater Antilles Islands, Taino/ Arawak Indians, ca. 1000-1500 CE. This striking example features a stylized anthropomorphic face that depicts a skull-like human face with circular sunken

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

Pre-columbian Taino Zemi from the Dominican Republic, ca. 1000-1500 A.D. Standing humanoid figure decorated with several incised decoration and carved from a green stone. Measurement:7-3/4\" in height

A Taino stone yoke or collar, ca. 600 - 1500 A.D., Ellipsoid form with thicker ends. The stone ring features two snake heads each swollowing the tail of the other. Dimensions: 13_1/4" x 9-3/4"; Weight