The upper class of nitaínos made all objects of wood, stone, gold, shell, bone, and pottery. A variety of Taíno stone graters, mortars, and pestles have been found by archaeologists, ranging from simple everyday household types for grinding yuca and other tubers and making dyes, to richly decorated examples that were probably used to grind cohoba powder from seeds. Stone knives and axes were both tools and weapons. Petaloid axes - stone celts hafted into wooden handles - were used to clear land, carve canoes and other wooden objects, and perhaps to cut manioc roots. Wood was fashioned into a variety of household articles, as well as into spears used in warfare. Musical instruments of wood, played during ceremonies and areytos, included maracas, rattles, and hollow-log drums of various sizes.

Taíno pottery reached an expressionistic level comparable to that of the most advanced ceramic cultures on the mainland, and used the same techniques. To strengthen the fabric of the fired pottery, clays were first tempered with sand, ash, crushed shell, or vegetable fibers. Vessels were formed using the coil method, in which strips of wet clay were laid vertically in concentric circles for cups, bowls, and jars, or horizontally for plates and flat-bottomed vessels. Modeling with the hands smoothed and fused the coils together. Potters also used their fingers to shape, pull, and gouge motifs, and incised fine details with pointed tools. When thoroughly dry, groups of vessels were fired together in large open pits. The corpus of Taíno ceramics also includes body stamps. The Taíno did not wear much clothing, but they decorated themselves with designs using pottery stamps coated with red, white, and black pigments obtained from plants and colored clays.

Although much of their art has not survived, the extant works of the Taíno are finely carved and richly detailed with motifs expressive of their worldview. As in other pre-Columbian cultures, there was little distinction between the secular and sacred spheres of existence. Whether for daily use, ceremonies, or areytos, almost everything made by the Taíno reflected their spirits, myths, and religious beliefs. Pottery vessels and the few remaining examples of Taíno textiles bear geometric motifs that mimic the invisible cosmic designs laid out at the beginning of time (cover and back). Duhos, mortars, and body stamps in the form of turtles refer to the myth of creation. Pestles, pottery, and amulets carved as owls and bats represent the messengers of the dead. A recurrent motif found on many works, such as ceramic bowls, stone collars, body stamps, and duhos, is the circle symbolic of the fifth direction - the imaginary central hole - that connected the earth to the cosmos.