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FLYING TOGETHER: IV - JAMAICA: THE LAND WE LOVE Atabeyra (Attabeira/Atabey/Atabex): The Earth Mother. Having neither the wheel nor a written language, the Arawaks did not use beasts of burden or metals (except for crude gold ornamentation). They honed skills as potters, carvers, weavers and boat builders. They were particularly adept at spinning and weaving cotton into clothing and hammocks – the latter an Amerindian invention. For recreation, the Arawaks got fired up with maize alcohol, smoked dried leaves and snorted a powdered drug through a meter-long tube they called a tobacco. They worshiped a variety of gods believed to control rain, sun, wind and hurricanes, and who were represented by zemes, idols of humans or animals. Once settled, they made their homes in conical thatched shelters. Their communal villages were made up of several family clans, which were headed by a cacique (chief). Subsistence farmers to the core, the women gathered food, while the men tilled the fields, hunted and fished. <strong>Jamaica</strong>’s fertile soils yielded yams, maize, beans, spices and cassava, which the Arawaks leached of poison and baked into cakes and fermented into beer. 6
FLYING TOGETHER: IV - JAMAICA: THE LAND WE LOVE The Arawak Taino Museum in White Marl, St. Catherine I had a student in my class who did early research in the Taino culture and introduced me to his interest. He went round collecting momentos from the country side which nobody cared. 7
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