LOT 0125 Arte delle Americhe Ritual spatula or swallow stick,
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Art of the Americas Ritual spatula or swallow stick, TainoCaribbean area. . Cm 39,00. important ritual wooden instrument with a carved terminal to reproduce a Cemi. The vomiting spatulas were used during shamanic rites to prepare the priest (behique) purging him before the ritual intake of pulverized cohoba, a local hallucinogen mixed with tobacco to maximize its effect. The trance that followed served to put the behique in contact with the ancestral deities of the Tainopeople, the Cemi.
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