图Pestle - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	图Pestle
品名（英）	Figure Pestle
入馆年号	1982年，1982.486.2
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 900 - 公元 1500
创作地区	多米尼加共和国（Dominican Republic）
分类	石头工具（Stone-Implements）
尺寸	高 6 3/4 英寸 (17.1 厘米)
介绍（中）	这张zemí图像很可能被用作一年中在规定时间举行的仪式中的研磨工具，仪式涉及一种被称为cohoba的植物。将磨碎的致幻粉末或糊状物放在表面上，仪式参与者将升麻研磨成粉末，通过鼻烟管吸入。塔伊诺人创造性的雕塑表达与精神、仪式和政治权力交织在一起。西班牙的记载描述了zemí人物是如何被用作支架、圣物箱或个人装饰的 Zemícemí）是泰诺人使用的一个术语，泰诺人是在欧洲接触之前居住在安的列斯群岛的各种社会，在语言上与甜味类似 Zemí不是指物体或图像，而是指与神和祖先有关的非物质、精神和重要力量。西班牙人记录了几个已知的zemí身份，其中一些与考古图像有关。
介绍（英）	This zemí image was likely used as a grinding implement in ceremonies performed at prescribed times throughout the year involving a vegetal entheogen known as cohoba. A ground up hallucinogenic powder or paste would be placed on a surface, and ceremonial participants would grind the cohoba into a powder to be inhaled through snuff tubes. Creative sculptural expression for the Taíno peoples was intertwined with spirituality, ceremony, and political power. Spanish accounts describe how zemí figures were used as stands, reliquaries, or personal adornment. Zemícemí) is a term used by Taíno peoples, the diverse societies that inhabited the Antilles archipelago before European contact, that linguistically relates to a quality akin to sweetness. Zemí refers not to an object or image but to an immaterial, spiritual, and vital force pertaining to deities and ancestors. There are several known zemí identities recorded by the Spanish, some of which have been linked to archaeological images.