Trigonolite, Museo del Hombre Dominicano, Santo

Trigonolite, a cult object like a zemi, housing the spirit of a god or ancestral spirit, used for obtaining good fortune or fertility from the spirits, anthropomorphic style in form of a head, possibly buried under a field for improving harvests, Taino culture, Precolumbian era, in the Museo del Hombre Dominicano, founded in 1973 and designed by Jose Antonio Caro Alvarez, on the Plaza de la Cultura in the Colonial Zone, in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, in the Caribbean. The museum houses collections on the culture of the Precolumbian Taino people. Santo Domingo's Colonial Zone is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13440207

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45126417

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5437px x 7087px (4.8MB)

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Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen