Important visitors would be ceremonially seated on duhos, and Christopher Columbus himself received this honour. But of all the futures that could have been foretold by the Taino chiefs sitting on ...

The Taino were one of the pre-European ... Only the chief or an important visitor could sit in a duho. Christopher Columbus was given this honour when he arrived in the Caribbean in 1492.

In the new year, the Spurlock Museum will host “Caribbean Indigenous Resistance/Resistencia indígena del Caribe ¡Taíno Vive!” ...