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Post Aruba N.V. will the Venezuelan Also, it seems that quite a few groups of
mainland, and it is specific designs can be distinguished all
EMIT STAMPS believed that the over the island. These groups consist of
drawings were made abstract forms, stylized figures, natural
entitles Indians of Aruba by Caquetio groups figures such as human and animal
living on Aruba or forms, and geometric shapes.
those migrating All of these were created with natural,
further north into highly durable and sustainable
the Caribbean materials, applied with fingers or short
archipelago. brushes, and either in cave entrances,
large cave openings, or in the hollow
ON July 31, 2015 Post Aruba N.V. will Palm Beach Plaza Mall. Make sure that It is estimated that parts of Aruba’s huge diorite boulders.
emit a set of four (4) stamps entitled you have this set in your collection as the Aruba rock The designs represented in this stamp
“Indians of Aruba”. the stock is limited. drawings are about series all originate from the Fontein
This set consists of 2 stamps sold at one thousand years Cave, a well-known large limestone
350 cents and 2 sold at 375 cents, For more information on the “Aruban old. Aruba holds a special place in cave that used to be submerged and
for the total price of Afl. 14.50, the Indians” stamp issue please contact the study of Caribbean petro graphs now stands at a half kilometer inland
accompanied FDC costs Afl.16,00. the Philatelic Department at 528- because of the fact that, given the on the northern coast. The different
7678 / main office located at J.E. relatively very small size of the island, design forms show the great variety
These stamp designs were printed by Irausquinplein # 9, Oranjestad or visit a great quantity of petro graphs are of visually strong designs that form the
“Austrian State Printing” and created their Facebook page Aruba Stamps. found all over the island, with a higher Fontein Cave collection, most of which
by Stan Kuiperi, an Aruban visual concentration in the caves along the have been drawn on the relatively flat
artist and graphic designer who for Indians of Aruba: Caquetio Petro northern coast. Also Aruba stands out ceilings of the cave.
many years has extensively studied graphs at the Fontein Cave. because of the fact that three color of
and represented the Caquetio cave Some of the only remainders of Aruba’s petro-graphs can be found: White, red It is not known exactly for which
drawings in art projects locally and native past are to be found in the and dark brown. purpose these drawings were created,
internationally. form of surviving petro graphs (rock nor is it known with certitude what
drawings or rock paintings) and petro Often these types of designs and colors meaning lies hidden in each of these
These stamps will be available at all glyphs (carved or incised glyphs). overlap each other, as if the early drawings. This knowledge seems to be
the Post Office locations, namely in The petro graphs were created by Caquetios ran out of space and created forever lost to the present generations.
Oranjestad, San Nicolas, Sta. Cruz and the migrating Caquetio natives from new drawings over the existing ones. We can only guess as to their true
This probably implies that the specific symbolic meaning and function, or
place of the drawings held an important interpret the drawings according to
meaning for the first inhabitants of our own modern-day perspective and
these southern Caribbean islands. experiences.
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