The Museo el Cemí is a history
museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
in
Coabey
Coabey is a barrio in the municipality of Jayuya, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 2,166. Coabey is a newer barrio which was formed from areas of Jayuya barrio-pueblo and its first census was done in 1930.
Features
The El Cemí Museum () ...
barrio in
Jayuya, Puerto Rico
Jayuya (, ) is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the mountainous center region of the island, north of Ponce; east of Utuado; and west of Ciales. Jayuya is spread over 10 barrios and Jayuya Pueblo (the downtown and administr ...
which opened in 1989. The museum building is a replica of a Cemí
and showcases
Taíno
The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, indigenous people of the Caribbean whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities. At the time of European contact in the ...
artifacts.
Description
The museum building was designed and built in the shape of a
Cemí
A zemi or cemi was a deity or ancestral spirit, and a sculptural object housing the spirit, among the Taíno people of the Caribbean.Bercht et al, 23 They were also created by indigenous South Americans.Bercht et al, 24
Theology
Taíno religi ...
, a Taíno deity and is on
PR-144
Puerto Rico Highway 144 (PR-144) is a rural road that travels from Jayuya, Puerto Rico to Ciales. This road extends from PR-140 in Collores and ends at PR-149 in Toro Negro.
Major intersections
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in Coabey, Jayuya. The museum's inauguration was in 1989.
Cemí's were Taíno deities.
Gallery
Museo El Cemí, Jayuya, Puerto Rico.jpg
Three-pointed stone owned by Mr Yunghannis, of Bayamón, Puerto Rico.jpg, Three-pointed stone Cemí is a specimen which was owned by Mr. Yunghannis, of Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Bayamón (, ) is a Bayamón barrio-pueblo, city, Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality of Puerto Rico and suburb of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan located in the northern coastal valley, north of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Aguas Buenas an ...
See also
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Puerto Rican art
Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States. Puerto Ricans (Spanish: ''puertorriqueños'' or ''boricuas'') are the people of Puerto Rico, the inhabitants, and citizens of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and their descendants. Puerto Rico is ...
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Jayuya, Puerto Rico