The Taino are the indigenous people of which island?
Taino Ritual Seat the national flower of Jamaica. The small chair is made in the form of a man on all fours. The head is decorated with gold and the figure is carved with male genitals underneath. Duhos are carved seats found in the houses of Taino caciques or chiefs throughout the Caribbean region. Duhos “figured prominently in the maintenance of Taino political and ideological systems . . . [and were] . . . literally seats of power, prestige, and ritual.” Duhos made of wood and stone have both been found, though those made of wood tend not to last as well as
Taino Ritual Seat the stone chairs and are, therefore, much rarer. This seat is one of two Taíno seats called "Duho" in the British Museum that were originally found on the island of Hispaniola. The other is also modelled anthropomorphically on a man, but in that case the resemblance to a man on his stomach is more proportional. There is another wooden duho in the collections of the British Museum that was found on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas. Some of the first people that Christopher Columbus met in the American continent were the Taino people. Their 7,000-year-old civilisation did not