Effigy head, Museo Arqueologico Regional Altos
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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