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TAINO PRECOLUMBIAN ANTHROPIC COHOBA INHALER

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 700.00 USD
TAINO PRECOLUMBIAN ANTHROPIC COHOBA INHALER
Taino. PreColumbian. A exceptional Anthropic Cohoba inhaler use to snuff the hallucinogen cohoba, a botanical drug extracted by crushing the seeds from the cohobana tree to a ingestible powder. A Finely carved effigy of a full bodied Shaman or shaman/priest (cacique). On reverse the body is depicted as skeletal, the Taino concept of dualism, similar but different. In this case plump and thin. The feet reach from the back to grasp the two bottom snuffing ports. Jasper or rhyolite. Length 5” Roberts collection. Curated by Larry Roberts author of “Taino Sculptures, Art of the Gods”. “Taino Hallucinogenic Implements Inhaling the Cosmic Dust” and newly released “Taino Zemis and Other Heads of State, ReDiscovering Caribbean Art”. BS. Archeology U of Fl and BA Art History U of Fl. This lot has a reserve.