I got this picture of me with Don Rodrigo, a Red Tailed Hawk. He was my partner at long days of hunting mongooses in the field and he was a very fierce and fearless hunter who used to fight bravely with the dangerous and feared mongoose.  I practice an ancient art known as falconry and I use to work voluntary for a Birds of Prey Rehabilitation Organization.  We use falconry knowledge for the rehabilitation of mostly red tailed hawks here in the island.  I learned falconry from the Master Falconer Juan Manuel Iglesias.  Under his guidance I became a falconer.

Here in Puerto Rico, I found some Taíno descendants that told me they are making bows and arrows the way their ancestors used to make them.  I'm not sure how effective those bows are and how good they are when making the bows.  I was studying how our Indians used to make them, and the wood chosen for those artifacts was of some kind of palm tree called "corozo".  They used wooden points hardened by fire, hafted in river cane shafts.  There is not too much evidence about knapped points here, so I think that's why there is not too much interest about the art of flintknapping here in the island.  For me, I will keep making my own obsidian arrowheads for my use.

I'm a professor, but also I'm known as one of the most realistic and original Taíno artifacts replicator.  Most of my replicas are in the US and some are as far as South Korea.  I have exchanged my art with natives from US.