Eleuthera
History: Lucayan
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[[File:Eleuthera Taino ritual stall or duho.jpg|thumb|left|The Eleuthera duho in the British Museum]] |
[[File:Eleuthera Taino ritual stall or duho.jpg|thumb|left|The Eleuthera duho in the British Museum]] |
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The possible first settlers of the island were the original population of [[Taíno |
The possible first settlers of the island were the original population of [[Taíno]]s or [[Arawaks]].{{cite web |url=http://www.gloriousbahamas.com/history-of-eleuthera-island.html|title=History of Eleuthera|publisher=Glorious Bahamas|access-date=21 February 2017}} An intact wooden ''duho'' or ritual seat that was made by the [[Lucayan people|Lucayan]] people was found on the island of Eleuthera in the nineteenth century and is now in the collections of the [[British Museum]].{{cite web | author = BM Staff | date = January 6, 2017 | title=British Museum Online Collection: Stool | work=BritishMuseum.org | url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=659469&partId=1&place=9650&plaA=9650-3-2&page=1 | access-date= January 6, 2017}} The island in its early history was known as ''Cigateo'' (or ''Ciguateo''), meaning "distant rocky land", but this name changed following subsequent European settlement.{{Cite journal |last=Ahrens |first=Wolfgang P. |date=2015 |title=Naming the Bahamas Islands: History and Folk Etymology |url=https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/oc/article/view/14910 |journal=Onomastica Canadiana |language=en |volume=94 |issue=2 |pages=101 |issn=2816-7015}} |
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[[File:new providence eleuthera.jpg|thumb|right|NASA satellite image, showing New Providence Island to the west, and east of it, the long, narrow island of Eleuthera running north and south (along with its associated Harbour and other small islands), as seen from space in 1997]] |
[[File:new providence eleuthera.jpg|thumb|right|NASA satellite image, showing New Providence Island to the west, and east of it, the long, narrow island of Eleuthera running north and south (along with its associated Harbour and other small islands), as seen from space in 1997]] |
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