The Cabeza de Macorix from the island of Hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti) and dates to AD 800 to 1500, probably represents a Native leader who was venerated after death. (NMAI, San Pedro de Macorís Province, Dominican Republic
This woman (likely Luisa Gainsa) and child are from a Native community near Baracoa, Cuba, whose members today work with researchers to document their history and culture. (NMAI, Mark Raymond Harrington, 1919).
Enslavement, resistance and spirituality connected the cultures and lives of African and Native peoples across the Caribbean. This print depicts a sugar plantation on Hispaniola (present-day Dominican Republic and Haiti) in the early 1500s. (Co
Most of today’s Taíno are of mixed heritage as suggested in this 1919 photograph of the Barrientos family headed by an an indigenous woman from Baracoa, Cuba and a Spanish ex-soldier. (NMAI, Mark Raymond Harrington, 1919)
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