Duho
The duho is the carved wooden seat of the Taíno, a low ceremonial stool of guaiacum or mahogany on which caciques and behiques sat in ritual, carved in the shape of an animal, a crouching figure or a reclining zemi with upturned chin and closed eyes. Spanish chroniclers recorded chiefs receiving Columbus and his men seated on duhos, and surviving museum pieces dated to around AD 600 span the islands from Cuba to the Bahamas, showing the form was ancient and widespread. The stool lifted its sitter above the ground and toward the spirits, and it was used in the cohoba ceremony, when the behique