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Episode 51: Caribbean Indigenous Art Caquetian Designs

The anthropology of art bat. Figures that represents down and picks on ro-
studies art in relation to the totems. Enigmatic animals, dents which can damage
cultural context in which who symbolizes happiness to harvest. Nowadays we
Aruban’s claim to inherit is and wisdom received from can hardly find this endan-
inspired in these art works. spirits of the underworld, gered animal since urban-
This offers a vision of the Cave dwellers whit the ization has taken over the
ideas that guard and mobi- ability to pass through spe- cunuco`s and their habitat.
lize the aesthetic creation, cial portals in order to bring Aruba`s rattles snakes are a
and analyzes the multiple back spiritual massages for separate and unique to our
universes where it is ex- the shamans of what to ex- island a specie that really
pressed and works. pect. deserves our protection.

The encounter of indig- Frog fertility totem: The Etnia Nativa presents an
enous societies with the frog as spirit animal or to- anthropological approach
conquerors amazed by the tem reminds us of the tran- to what we can call an-
reality of a New World, had sient nature of our lives. As cient Aruban natural rela-
a convergence in a cul- symbol of transition and tions using art in order to
tural confrontation where transformation, this spirit understand the indigenous
aesthetic and symbolic animal supports us in times aesthetic creation of island
factors were part of it, flow- of change. Strongly asso- native expressions. It val-
ing to our time through his- ciated with the water ele- ues the way in which the
tory and archeology, to ment, it connects us with indigenous universe and its
recover objects of knowl- the world of emotions and aesthetic production have
edge and as components feminine energies. been recorded throughout the precolonial creative tering of this art as a cult
of new processes of artistic history, generating new ar- production in connection was cosmological inspired,
creation and a sense of be- The Dori is Aruba`s only frog tistic products. It discusses with contemporary art in- expressed throughout their
longing to an unique and species and an ancestral indigenous aesthetic con- spired on native Aruban techniques. This heritage
separate group of people fertility totem. The associa- ceptions, their connection motives. was transmitted from gen-
that has survived ages of tion with the rainy season to the natural environment, Native Americans of Aru- eration to generation till
suppression while using this explains it all. Happy Dori`s and how they influenced ba, from Caquetian origi- the beginning of the 20th
same principals to claim sing all night in celebration the processes of cultural nal stock where the local century.
and obtain a special status of the coming harvest and interaction with Europeans. potters well in to the era
whit in the Dutch kingdom abundance. Finally, it focuses on ceram- of Dutch colonial occupa- Those who participate in
ics as a key resource for tion. our cultural and interac-
Aruba conserves an indig- The rattlesnake; care taker the indigenous aesthetic tive tour learn the manage-
enous patrimonial legacy of the Cunuco or planta- expression, as a way of an- They were the expert Cera- ment of anthropological,
with strong aesthetic val- tion, that travel after sun- thropological recovery of mists and Potters. Their mas- historical and aesthetic
ues. categories, obtain knowl-
edge of anthropology, art
Etnia Nativa rediscovers history and archeology of
studies and admires the ex- both Aruba and the Carib-
pressive power of this leg- bean and of America as a
acy, incorporating artistic whole, obtain information
archaeological objects of concerning resent research
our cultural heritage. of the region, and a gener-
alize comparative vision of
Patrish: representing the indigenous cultures, ico-
crested bobwhite who`s nography and aesthetic el-
song remind us to the song ements of island societies.
for the dead. Fertility Deity
‘Warawashi que’. ‘Wara- Critical evaluation of cul-
washi que’ was the name tural heritage manage-
to which the women of the ment, cultural heritage and
Aruban’s fishermen were the information associated
known.This was a Deity of with art and cultural con-
Fertility for our Caquetio cepts based on artistic cre-
natives which its original ation around the theme.
is displayed in the AMA
Archaeological Museum To get to know more about
Aruba. Aruba and its origins, its ani-
mals and culture, we highly
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