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品名（中）	轭
品名（英）	Yoke
入馆年号	1984年，1984.519.1
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 1200 - 公元 1500
创作地区	多米尼加共和国（Dominican Republic）
分类	石头装饰品（Stone-Ornaments）
尺寸	高 2 × 宽 12 × 长 14 3/4 英寸 (5.1 × 30.5 × 37.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	石制椭圆形项圈很可能是一系列作品的一部分，这些作品作为肯定和投射政治权力的象征，用于公共和限制的仪式活动。一个这样的公开仪式可能是用橡胶球进行的球赛，正如安的列斯群岛和中美洲大陆的西班牙编年史所描述的那样。项圈可能包含塔伊诺神话中zemí人物的抽象或pars pro toto表示 Zemí（或cemí）是塔伊诺人使用的一个术语，塔伊诺是在欧洲接触之前居住在安的列斯群岛的不同社会，在语言上与甜味相似 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。西班牙人记录了几种已知的zemí身份，其中一些与考古图像有关值得注意的是，据报道，这些石项圈中没有发现陪葬品，这表明这些有力的雕塑作品是由原看护人的后代继承的，而不是与死者一起埋葬。
介绍（英）	Stone elliptical collars are most likely part of an assemblage of works that served as regalia that affirmed and projected political power, used in public and restricted ceremonial activities. One such public ceremony may have been a ballgame played with rubber balls, such as was described by Spanish chroniclers in both the Antilles and the Mesoamerican mainland. The collars may contain abstracted or pars-pro-toto representations of zemí figures, featured in Taíno mythology. Zemí (or cemí) 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. It is notable that none of the stone collars were reportedly found with funerary remains, suggesting that these potent works of sculpture were inherited by the descendants of the original caretaker, rather than being buried with the deceased.