Duho or seat made from a single piece of wood, representing an anthropomorphic figure with sculptured head and engraved geometric designs on the back, used for the cohoba ritual. The Duho was also used by the cacique while watching the ball game played by the Tainos. The head represented the deification of the dog called Opigielguouiran.

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.

Duhos Duho, Haiti, Taino, Taino Museum Info: Duhos - Ritual Seat This wooden seat was used by chiefs in the Caribbean Taino culture during ceremonial communication with the spirit world.

Duho. Ceremonial seat used by warlords to preside over the ceremonies and rituals. Totem "God of Snuff." This figure was used as funerary urn for major characters and loved ones of the tribe. Sun God. Sale of a cave of the country's chief Mautiatibuel (son of dawn) or "Lord of the Dawn", which returns to hide, while the moon comes out of there ...

The piece epitomizes the duho style found north of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, the Taíno heartland, in the islands of the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos; it is a local variant, handiwork of the Lucayano.

Ritual seat (duho) sculpted from the dense tropical hardwood guayacan, in the form of a powerful male figure crouching on all fours. The eyes, mouth and shoulders are inlaid with gold. The back of the seat is carved with a geometric design.

Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank: [0:19] This is what’s known as a duho, a type of seat that is often low to the ground. The one that we’re looking at has an anthropomorphic or zoomorphic face on one end, then a slightly curved back where you would actually sit. And then on the other side what looks like a small, short tail and then the four legs.

Title: Duho (Ceremonial Seat) Date: 11th–15th century. Geography: Puerto Rico, Caribbean. Culture: Taíno. Medium: Stone. Dimensions: H. 9 13/16 × W. 6 5/16 × D. 11 13/16 in. (25 × 16 × 30 cm) Classification: Wood-Sculpture. Credit Line: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Gift of George Latimer ...

2017年9月12日 · Wooden four-legged stool carved in anthropomorphic form and inlaid with gold; called duho. Image credits: British Museum. The wood of the duho - smooth and perfect - originated from the Caribbean and was intentionally chosen and had remarkable qualities. It was so unusually dense that it could sink in water.

2022年11月12日 · Figure \(\PageIndex{8}\): Taíno artist, Duho, 1292–1399, wood and gold, 44 x 22 x 16.5 cm (The British Museum) Duhos are ceremonial seats fashioned out of stone or wood. They symbolized prestige and power since only caciques or ritual specialists used them.