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

Ceremonial bowl used for storing hallucinogenic cohoba powder, which may have had an extension into which the inhaler was inserted, 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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Contained in galleries: Dominican Republic, Caribbean

Ceremonial bowl used for storing hallucinogenic cohoba powder, which may have had an extension into which the inhaler was inserted, 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