"Anacaona"

This one of a kind oil painting depicts the story of the indigenous Taíno heroine, Anacaona; during a ceremony in Boyo (present day Haiti) before the Spaniards change the Island's name to Hispaniola.

Anacaona, or “Golden Flower”, 1474-1503, was a female Native American chief, and a celebrated poet of ballads and narrative poems called "Areitos".

The legendary chief became queen of Xaragua and Managua territories after her husband death and cleverly organized the resistance to the Spanish conquerors.  She fought and won many fierce battles before she was captured and killed. Today, she is memorialized by the new inhabitants of the island, the Haitians and the Dominican and many more in Latin America.