Vase, Museo Arqueologico Regional Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic, Caribbean

Precolumbian heart shaped vase with human heads on the spout, with a phallic shaped pourer (not shown here), Taino culture, in the Museo Arqueologico Regional Altos de Chavon, in Altos de Chavon, a recreated European village built 1976-82 in La Romana, Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. The museum was opened in 1981 and is part of the Altos de Chavon Cultural Center Foundation, housing a collection of indigenous objects donated by Samuel Pion. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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LC18_DominicanRepublic_MC_079.jpg

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Manuel Cohen

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Dominican Republic, Caribbean