Zemi

A zemi or cemi (Taíno: semi [sɛmi])^[2] was a deity or ancestral spirit, and a sculptural object housing the spirit, among the Taíno people of the Caribbean.^[3] Cemi’no or Zemi’no is a plural word for the spirits.

^ "Deity Figure (Zemi) Dominican Republic; Taino (1979.206.380)" Archived December 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000 October 2006; retrieved 22 September 2009
^ Julian Granberry and Gary S. Vescelius. 2004. Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, pp. 111
^ Bercht et al, 23

[heil-1] "Deity Figure (Zemi) Dominican Republic; Taino (1979.206.380)" Archived December 5, 2009, at the Wayback Machine In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000 October 2006; retrieved 22 September 2009

[2] Julian Granberry and Gary S. Vescelius. 2004. Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, pp. 111

[b23-3] Bercht et al, 23

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