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emancheno - Puerto Rico "Caciques De Boriquen" Medal Series and Other Taino Related Medals
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DescriptionMedals commemorating Puerto Rico native pre-colombian "Taino" indian chiefs known as "Caciques". The first medal edition series was minted in 1971 in the San Juan Mint in old San Juan Puerto Rico, owned by Luis D Casenave. Tomas Batista was the Artist/sculptor who worked on this project. Mintages/qty's are unknown since they were produced as souvenir conmemorative pieces and jewelry-bracelet charms, earings, etc. in 5 different diameters (30.1, 26.5, 20.0, 18.0, and 13.9mm) in metals such as gold, silver, bronce, and some copper high relief trials-patterns. It is believe hundreds might have been produced, but only a few exist in private collections since the majority were melted when the value of gold and silver skyrocketed in the 1980's. There is also a recent 2000 series edition by another private investor with similar designs seen in silver and very limited gold samples but just in the smallest diameters. Also included are other Cacique and Taino related medals from other organizations. Taíno Indians, a subgroup of the Arawakan Indians (a group of American Indians in northeastern South America), inhabited the Greater Antilles (comprising Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola [Haiti and the Dominican Republic], and Puerto Rico) in the Caribbean Sea at the time when Christopher Columbus' arrived to the New World. The Taíno culture impressed both the Spanish (who observed it) and modern sociologists. The Arawakan achievements included construction of ceremonial ball parks whose boundaries were marked by upright stone dolmens, development of a universal language, and creation of a complicated religious cosmology. There was a hierarchy of deities who inhabited the sky; Yocahu was the supreme Creator. Another god, Jurakán, was perpetually angry and ruled the power of the hurricane. Other mythological figures were the gods Cemi and Maboya. The Cemis, a god of both sexes, were represented by icons in the form of human and animal figures, and collars made of wood, stone, bones, and human remains. Taíno Indians believed that being in the good graces of their Cemis protected them from disease, hurricanes, or disaster in war. They therefore served cassava (manioc) bread as well as beverages and tobacco to their Cemis as propitiatory offerings. Maboyas, on the other hand, was a nocturnal deity who destroyed the crops and was feared by all the natives, to the extent that elaborate sacrifices were offered to placate him.Myths and traditions were perpetuated through ceremonial dances (areytos), drumbeats, oral traditions, and a ceremonial ball game played between opposing teams (of 10 to 30 players per team) with a rubber ball; winning this game was thought to bring a good harvest and strong, healthy children. The Taíno Indians lived in theocratic kingdoms and had a hierarchically arranged chiefs or caciques. The Taínos were divided in three social classes: the naborias (work class), the nitaínos or sub-chiefs and noblemen which includes the bohiques or priests and medicine men and the caciques or chiefs, each village or yucayeque had one. At the time Juan Ponce de León took possession of the Island, there were about twenty villages or yucayeques, Cacique Agüeybana, was chief of the Taínos. He lived at Guánica, the largest Indian village in the island, on the Guayanilla River. The rank of each cacique apparently was established along democratic lines; his importance in the tribe being determined by the size of his clan, rather than its war-making strength. There was no aristocracy of lineage, nor were their titles other than those given to individuals to distinguish their services to the clan. 45 items (showing items 1–20)
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