The Tainos were among Jamaica’s earliest settlers but very little remains of these indigenous people today. Learn more about them with these quick facts and visit these remaining Taino sites …
taino masterpieces, art book of the last civilisation of the Carribbean. Book to sell, please contact us : contact@taino-masterpieces.com. Livre d'art Taino, peuple des grandes antilles pré-colombiennes du 6 au 15e siecle. Réalisé pour le compte d'un collectionneur privé et d'un galeriste, expert en art amérindien.
Cesar Estrella Taino Museum in Guananico, Puerto Plata DR. One of the largest collections of Taino artifacts, history, books and more.
por El Museo Chileno de Arte PreColombino
These are handouts I have about Taino and Arawak symbols. Here is a website that uses a lot of the same information grouped in categories and also a site with more detailed explanations. Photographs of artifacts can be found in this book and of rock carvings at this website. These Taino tattos also have clear images and descent explanations. Here are links to other websites with symbols for many diverse Native American Nations. I found this link in 2016: http://www.tainoage.com/meaning.html Here is a link to Creation Stories: http://tainonaboriasociety.blogspot.com/2009/02/taino-creation-myths.html Below are photos my friends posted on Facebook: Here is a video of some of the original sites.
The Native people of Hispaniola were long believed to have died out. But a journalist's search for their descendants turned up surprising results
