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| | Taino Caves by Lynne Guitar |
 | | Many cave drawings, which specialists call pictographs, celebrate the sacred cohoba trance--you can clearly see the dujos, the low stools on which the cacique or behique reclined while taking the cohoba drug, and the long tubes called tobacos that they used to inhale the cohoba. |
 | | The behique ground the shells into a powder that he mixed with his cohoba, for the calcium acted as a catalyst to put him into a trance state more quickly. |
 | | A few Taíno were entombed in caves, along with their possessions: beautifully decorated ceramic bowls with bats on the handles, gourds for water, necklaces of shell, bone, seeds, teeth and stones, elaborate stone mortars and pestles. |
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