A Taíno fisher gathering a woven cotton net at the shore - bare to the waist, simple wrap, calm working pose. Period: Columbus voyages, 1492-1504.
Caribbean Taíno communities ran sophisticated coastal fishing - cotton nets, weirs, dugout canoes (canoa). Columbus described their fishing skill and the abundance of their catches in his 1492 journal. The most everyday figure of the contact moment.
Painting tips
- Skin: warm brown.
- Wrap: undyed cotton white.
- Net: pale cream cotton with sepia wash in the knots.
- Body paint: muted red and black geometric.
Historical sources & further reading
- Rouse, The Tainos
- Caribbean indigenous fishing technology references
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