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The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean.The term "Arawak" has been applied at various times to different Indigenous groups, from the Lokono of South America to the Taíno (Island Arawaks), who lived in the Greater Antilles and northern Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.
The second major migration was the Arawaks settling the islands as they traveled north from the Orinoco River in Venezuela. [1] The Kalinago people, who were more dominant in warfare, began a campaign of conquering and displacement of the Arawaks at the point of European arrival.
The Indigenous peoples of the Greater Antilles are sometimes referred to as Island Arawaks. At the time of European contact in the late 15th century, they were the principal inhabitants of most of what is now Cuba , the Dominican Republic , Jamaica , Haiti , Puerto Rico , the Bahamas , and the northern Lesser Antilles .
Despite their extensive woodworking skills due to wood's perishable quality limited discovery has been made of the materials created by the Arawaks. The exception were wooden artifacts recovered from desiccated-dry environments or were in a carbonized or waterlogged state such as the wooden Arawak bird located in the White Marl Museum. [1]
The Lokono Artists Group. Historically, the group self-identified and still identifies as 'Lokono-Arawak' by the semi fluent speakers in the tribe, or simply as 'Arawak' (by non speakers of the native tongue within the tribe) and strictly as 'Lokono' by tribal members who are still fluent in the language, because in their own language they call themselves 'Lokono' meaning 'many people' (of ...
By projecting all three images onto a screen simultaneously, he was able to recreate the original image of the ribbon. #4 London, Kodachrome. Image credits: Chalmers Butterfield
Sculptural zemis, or "amuletic zemis", take many forms, [6] but the most characteristically Taíno art form is the three-point stone zemi. [7]One side of the stone might have a human or animal head with the opposite side having hunched legs.
An ancient shipwreck that dates back to the 7th century B.C.E. has been removed from waters off Spain, two decades after its discovery in 1994.