AUCTION 322 - ETHNOGRAPHIC ART AND NATURALIA (saleroom auction)
Lot 125
Arte Delle Americhe
Ritual spatula or swallow stick, Taino Caribbean area
important ritual wooden instrument with a carved terminal to reproduce a Cemi. The vomiting spatulas were used during shamanic rites to prepare the priest (behique) purging him before the ritual intake of pulverized cohoba, a local hallucinogen mixed with tobacco to maximize its effect. The trance that followed served to put the behique in contact with the ancestral deities of the Taino
people, the Cemi.
Measures: 39.0 cm
Starting price: € 500,00
Estimate: € 1.500,00 - 2.000,00
The lot will be auctioned on 28 April starting from 16:30.
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