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Tuesday 7 January 2020

Caribbean Indigenous Art Caquetian Designs Episode LI -51

ORANJESTAD — The anthropology of art studies art in relation to the cul-
tural context in which Aruban’s claim to inherit is inspired in these art
works. This offers a vision of the ideas that guard and mobilize the aes-
thetic creation, and analyzes the multiple universes where it is expressed
and works.

In this abstract figure: if we notice you can observe the figure of a fish in
vertical position and the vagina of the woman represented the mouth
of a fish made out of clay. The pregnant woman figure represents what
fertility will bring, life and renewal.

Patrish: representing the crested bobwhite who`s song remind us to
the song for the dead.

The encounter of indigenous societies This was a Deity of Fertility for our Ca-
with the conquerors amazed by the quetio natives which its original is dis-
reality of a New World, had a con- played in the AMA Archaeological
vergence in a cultural confrontation Museum Aruba.
where aesthetic and symbolic fac- The same happens with the bat. Fig-
tors were part of it, flowing to our time ures that represents totems. Enigmatic
through history and archeology, to animals, who symbolizes happiness
recover objects of knowledge and as and wisdom received from spirits of
components of new processes of ar- the underworld, Cave dwellers whit
tistic creation and a sense of belong- the ability to pass through special
ing to an unique and separate group portals in order to bring back spiritual
of people that has survived ages of massages for the shamans of what to
suppression while using this same prin- expect.
cipals to claim and obtain a special Frog fertility totem: The frog as spirit
status whit in the Dutch kingdom animal or totem reminds us of the
transient nature of our lives. As sym-
Aruba conserves an indigenous pat- bol of transition and transformation,
rimonial legacy with strong aesthetic this spirit animal supports us in times of
values. change. Strongly associated with the
Etnia Nativa rediscovers studies and water element, it connects us with the
admires the expressive power of this world of emotions and feminine ener-
legacy, incorporating artistic archae- gies.
ological objects of our cultural heri-
tage. The Dori is Aruba`s only frog species
and an ancestral fertility totem. The
Fertility Deity ‘Warawashi que’ association with the rainy season ex-
‘Warawashi que' was the name to plains it all.
which the women of the Aruban’s
fishermen were known. Continued on Page 15