Still standing

Yale Peabody Museum

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The one thing many people think they know about the Taíno people of the Caribbean is that they were wiped out by the Spanish soon after Columbus’s arrival. But the Taíno and their culture live on, as an exhibition at the Peabody Museum makes clear. ¡Taíno Vive!, organized by the Smithsonian Institution, features artifacts of Taíno daily life and religion (like the carved dog above representing a cemí or spiritual object), demonstrating threads of continuity with living Caribbean people who call themselves Taíno. The Peabody has enhanced the exhibition with items from its own collections and with contributions from Taíno cultural practitioners in Connecticut. It runs through June 21.