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Effigy head, Museo Arqueologico Regional Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic, Caribbean

Effigy Head, used as funerary offering for chieftains, thought to be somehow related to the 3-pointed idols, with facial features of the Taino and Macorix, who practiced cranial deformation, 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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Image Size: 6302x4134 / 4.1MB; www.manuelcohen.com; Altos de Chavon Altos de Chavon Cultural Center Foundation Americas archaeological archaeology archeological archeology Caribbean collection colonial colony color image colour image display Dominican Republic effigy head exhibition funerary offering Greater Antilles heritage Hispaniola history horizontal indigenous indoors inside interior island La Romana Museo Arqueologico Regional Altos de Chavon museum New Spain New World North America North American object precolumbian Republica Dominicana Samuel Pion Spanish stone Taino Tainos
Contained in galleries: Dominican Republic, Caribbean

Effigy Head, used as funerary offering for chieftains, thought to be somehow related to the 3-pointed idols, with facial features of the Taino and Macorix, who practiced cranial deformation, 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