1984-93-
Arawak Art
'Cohoba Idol' (male) Pencil and crayon on paper. Study
of an original Arawak wood carving. |
'Bird Man' My drawing of another Cohoba Idol carved
from wood with shell inlay. Pencil and crayon on paper. |
'Cohoba Idol' (female) Pencil on paper. Drawing of Arawak
wood carvings. |
. 'Beaded Cohoba Idol', front and back. Study of an
Arawak sacred snuff table made of woven fiber, wood
beads and shells. |
'Zemi' Drawing in pencil on paper of Arawak 'Zemi' (spirit
holder) made of woven cotton and containing a human
skull. |
'Bificated
Tube' - Drawing in pencil on paper of a carved bone anthropomorphic
shaped sniffing tube.
Drawings
from period 1984-93. Many versions of the 'Cohoba Snuff Tables'
showed up in our research on the Arawak Indians. 'Cohoba'
was a hallucinogenic snuff made from a certain kind of bean,
mixed with lime, which the Arawaks sniffed through y-shaped
tubes to connect them with the spirit world. I created a series
of detailed drawings of Arawak art and artifacts for a book
Nik intended to write. |
