2nd Test Pre-Colonbian Flashcards
Zenu/ Gran Zenu area (lowland Atlantic/Caribbean cost)
Early phase (5th-10th century AD)
Later Phase (10th-15th century AD)
Hydraulic agriculture / terraforming
Caciques / Cacicas / Mohanes
Isthmus of Darien/ Gran Darien
Darien Figuras
“International Style”
Lost Wax Casting
Antilles / Taino culture
Fray Ramon Pané (1497)
Greater Antilles, Lesser Antilles
Arawak / Carib
Caciques (male or female)
Antilles / Taino culture
Nitaínos (nobles) Naborias (commoners) Areytos (feasting events) Duho Matrilineal Cassava/yuca Cassava/yuca
Zemis
Zemi effigy figures/sculptures Yúcahu/Atabey (deities) Deminán (culture hero) Three pointers Elbow stones Stone collars
Bohiques (shamans)
Coho a
Snuff tube, snuff tray
Vomit stick
Caguana
Yucayeque (town)
Batéy/ballgame
Goddess of Caguana
Panama
Gran Coclé style:
Polychrome ceramics
Pedestal plates
Bowls
Dualism/Anatropic designs
Panama: Gran Coclé style
- Pedestal bowl (crouching frog motif) (Helms).
- Jar (dragon-snake motif) (Helms).
- Plate (deer-snake motif) (Helms.
Costuming/Transformation/Performance
Panama: Gran Coclé style
- Bowl (hammerhead shark motif) (Helms).
- Plate (shaman in transformation/costumed dancer) (Helms).
- Plate (composite bird-animal transformation) (Helms).
Shamans in transformation, combat, seated or meditative.
Shaman transformation (Labbe, figs. 106, 107, 109, 110).
Animals, Composite Creatures
Panama: Gran Coclé style
- Boa Oval design with birds (Helms fig. 4).
- Serpent-Saurian (Helms fig. 3).
- Iguana-Boa (Helms fig. 3).
- Composite animal fish-bird-snake (Labbe, fig. 112).
- Walking/Jumping Curassow (Helms figs. 6, 10).
Panama: Sitio Conte, Burial 26 (Lothrop); Burial 11 (Mason), El Caño
- Gold disk (ritually attired/transformation shaman) (Helms).
- Gold Helmet, animal impersonator; Sitio Conte (Helms).
- Gold Pectoral Disk, composite saurian animals; Sitio Conte (Helms).
- Gold Arm Cuff/BandT Ain Taino Zem Taino Zem (raptors and felines), Sitio Conte (Helms).
Isthmus of Darien/Gran Darien
- Darien figure, Zenu gold pendant (Falchetti figs. 2, 31, 32, 48, 49).
- Darien figure, Panama gold pendant ( Falchetti figs. 60, 61).
- “International Style” Anthrozoomorphic gold pendant ( Falchetti fig. 40, 7.18).
Zenu/Gran Zenu area:
Early 5th-10th century AD
Late 10th-15th century AD
Caciques Cacicas Mohanes In territories: Finzenu Panzenu Zenufana
Zenu/Gran Zenu area
- Jaguar and seated figures, jar, Zenu (Labbe/Falchetti fig. 149).
- Tall pedestal jar (female), Zenu (Labbe/Falchetti, fig. 149).
- Gold breastplate (serpents and jaguars), Zenu (Falchetti fig. 7.11).
Antilles/Taino culture
- Zeni effigy sculptures
- Three pointers, elbow stones and stone collars
- Caciques & Bohiques
Zemi effigy sculptures
Antilles/Taino culture
- Wood Zemi, bird, (Algeria fig. 1, 7, 8).
- Zemi on all four, (Rio fig. 101).
Three pointers, elbow stones and stone collars
Antilles/Taino culture
- Carved 3-point stone (Big Figure/Little Figure pair), (Alegria fig. 16).
- Carved collar (Alegria fig. 17).
Caciques & Bohiques
Antilles/Taino culture
- Carved wooden duho/stool, mother of pearl inlays, (Alegria fig. 16).
- Bohique/Shaman effigy figure, ceramic, (Roe fig. 104, 105).
- Carved Cohoba snuff tube, (Alegria fig. 13); wooden snuff tray, (Roe fig. 118).
- carved vomiting stick, (Alegria fig. 14, Roe fig. 107).
Caguana site (Puerto Rico)
Batéy/ballgame
Petroglyphs, Goddess of Caguana