The Taino Culture

Taino Indian Culture The Taino peoples came about in around 1200 A.D. from a diverse background of people who had been in the Greater Antilles for hundreds of years. They became the dominant culture of the region and lived on the large islands of the Greater Antilles. This was composed of the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispanola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico. Pre- Columbian cultures such as Taino, Believed the Earth was a flat disc pierced at the …

…Taino homes were big, and extended families lived together. Chiefs slept on wooden platforms while everyone else slept in hammocks. Houses had small gardens where families grew chili peppers, squash, beans and other produce for their own use. The Tainos had mainly one form of tranportation which was by canoe. Also, The Zemis had a specific use. Zemis were primarily used for fertility purposes, they also were facial figures of their ancestral spirits. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**