Something we have been thinking about lately is the so-called kuisa. An important part of the cohoba ritual since participants had to purge themselves before the ceremony, we have never heard this word kuisa before. It would be interesting to know where the Museo del Barrio found this word since we have not encountered any Spanish sources from the early colonial period using it. Was it taken from one of the dictionaries of Taino language revivalists?
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