A cemí is a spirit and the object that houses it. Between 1200 and 1500 CE, carvers across the Greater Antilles cut three-pointed trigonoliths from dense grey volcanic rock, or from guayacan hardwood polished until the wood's own resin surfaced as a black lustre. Eyes and teeth were inlaid with shell, so a pale ring stares out of a near-black body.

This system takes that material logic literally. The page is polished hardwood. Type sits in the museum-editorial register that Spanish-language archaeology publishing actually uses. Light arrives only where shell, gold-copper alloy or annatto red was actually set — never as decoration spread evenly across a surface.