Synthesis of Taino culture

By: Robinson Rosado; CIBA Arqueologist Society, Inc - President

Synthesis Document

Cojoba History Facts

Photos

List of References:
Ciales and the Cojoba Ceremony
Cover illustration taken from the brochure “Isla y Pueblo”/Division of Community Education, DIPPR, 1968. VIVA segment of the newspaper EL REPORTERO Puerto Rico Saturday, May 21, 1983
Clarification on the cojoba ritual and opening of the Archaeological Museum Letter Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP) May 21, 1990, written by Jaime Rodríguez Cancel, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute. Clarification on the cojoba ritual and opening of the Archaeological Museum Letter Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (ICP) to Robinson Rosado, President of the Archaeological Society, CIBA, Inc. May 23, 1990, written by Ignacio Olazagasti, Assistant Director of the Institute. Brief notes for the history of Cialeña archeology By: Robinson Rosado, President CIBA Archaeological Society, Inc. Ciales and Cojoba Description of the cojoba ritual, letter sent to Mr. Robinson Rosado, President of the Archaeological Society, CIBA, Inc. By: Ricardo E. Alegría, Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Who found the artifacts? Letter Mr. Antonio Navedo addressed to Robinson Rosado on September 15, 1982 where he narrates the moment when they found the artifacts and where he gives him the artifacts from the cojoba. Gallery of Indigenous Art and Contemporary Crafts and General Art “La Cojoba Cialeña” Message from the Founders at the inauguration of the cohoba gallery. By: Members of the Ciba Archaeological Society, Inc. and Mrs. Imelda Rebeca Rosado – Rebmarí Bakery and Pastry Representative Our heritage: Cojoba Ceremonial City By: Robinson Rosado, President of the Archaeological Society, CIBA, Inc. Artisanal Festivals of the Cojoba Ceremony During the incumbency of the Hon. Mayor Roque Otero, several festivals of the cojoba ceremony were celebrated. Loose leaf festival promotion.
Reproduction of the Cemí de la Cojoba
Carved by the artisan Brandon Casul (his Taíno name: Cotubanamá Ururú Casul) in 2017. See photo cemí original carving of the cojoba (origin of the photo Dominican Republic).

Brief notes on the origins and influence of Antillean aboriginal crafts and art on the artisans of current Puerto Rico
By: Robinson Rosado, President of the CIBA Archaeological Society, Inc.

Yagueca Battle
Photo of the oil painting created by the Ponce artist Agustín Anavitate, year 2001.

Brief synthesis of Taíno culture
By: Robinson Rosado, President CIBA Archaeological Society, Inc.

Caguana
CEH NOTEBOOKS No. 1, 2011
Mythical Landscape and Sacred Space at the Caguana Indigenous Ceremonial Center in Utuado, Puerto Rico1 by: Ángel Rodríguez Ph.D.2

Documentary: The Good Heritage (Puerto Rico)
Historical documentary about the Taíno Culture of Puerto Rico.
Youtube Channel: Boriken TV Islands
Published on Jun212014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8aiI594lWk&t=45s
Story by Ricardo Alegría
Filmed in 1967

Excavating the Caguana Ceremonial Plaza in Utuado
Archaeological Research Center of the University of Puerto Rico. Moving Images Archive. General Archive of Puerto Rico. Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.

Image 25.
Structure of a frog, elements associated with Taíno mythology, which is found in the Cueva de las Golondrinas in Ciales, Puerto Rico.

Image 26.
Petroglyphs of the sun and the moon in the Cueva de las Golondrinas. These elements are also associated with the origins of Taíno mythology. See list of the antiquities of the Indians of Fray Ramón Pané.

Petroglyphs of Puerto Rico
Fourth edition 1988 - by Nelson Rafael Collazo, Cultural Promoter/ICP, rest in peace. Drawings of petroglyphs by the painter Angel Jiménez Alfínez.

Indigenous Petroglyphs of Eastern Puerto Rico
By Dr. William Trinidad, delivered to Robinson Rosado on July 1, 1994

Relation about the Antiquities of the Indians
By Fray Ramón Pané, first edition 1974. Eighth corrected and amended edition, 1988.

Taino Sun and Moon of Ciales