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The Issue of Taino Aymaco |
| We Taino people wore practically nothing more than 500 years ago. With this new millennium, we must change just like the rest of the world. Many of our new members may have different colors and or motifs according to their clan. As long as designs maintain the Taino style, we see no problem. While some Indian tribes wear artificial feathers, we will try to wear real feathers that have fallen, not plucked, from birds raised from licensed bird sanctuaries and aviaries. |
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REGALIA AND TRIBAL COLORS
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Blue, Green,
Yellow, and
Red. Motifs: Frog face, front view, hawks, eagles, turtles, hummingbirds, macaws, and other large to medium-sized parrots. Staff: Walking stick, 6 feet high, made from a cut tree, tribal motifs and feathers attached. Rattle attached with leather straps and feathers. Headband: Tribal color and feathers. No headband is permitted. Hair tied behind the head with a pigtail and feather also maintains our tradition. Necklaces: Large brown seeds. Shirts: Long sleeve white cotton with tribal colors, streamers, and motifs. Pants: Color beige, tribal colors and motif streamers. Sandals: Light brown in color similar to low cut moccasinsThe village |
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Women's Regalia:
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| women wear the short white nagua to the knees with the water serpent engraving on the bottom painted in black (used to be with emajagua fruit paint years back). |
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Elders and Leaders Regalia:
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| The women of the nobility, the Cacike and Behike's and Elder's women wear the long nagua like the Cacika to the ankle with the same motif painted on the bottom (fringe). Tribal color can be added for beauty to the nagua side trimming. The tops for both are short or long sleeve V-cut white shirts/blouses. The children wear a one piece cotton shirt to the knee with V cut neck called "cota" in Spanish. Can add a belt with fringe on tribal colors. The Elders can wear a regular belt, and should construct themselves the rainbow colored belt of the Taino, the rainbow warrior, if at all possible to wear with their regalia of beige pants and white shirts. Motifs and streamers in tribal colors are OK. |
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