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Carriacou and Petite Martinique

Island

⚠ NOT MAINLAND GRENADA. Carriacou and Petite Martinique are Grenadine islands, geographically and culturally closer to Saint Vincent’s Grenadines than to Saint George’s. Carriacou is known for BOAT BUILDING — wooden sloops built on the beach at Windward by descendants of Scottish shipwrights and African craftsmen — and for the BIG DRUM / NATION DANCE, an exceptionally well-preserved tradition in which specific African "nations" — Cromanti, Igbo, Manding, Chamba, Temne — are named and danced, with food offerings and the pouring of libation. ⚠ THE NATION DANCE IS RECORDED AS TO ITS EXISTENCE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE; its ceremonial detail is not reproduced. Food: fish, conch, goat, provisions, oil down, "smoke food" cooked on the beach, and Petite Martinique’s seafaring and boat-launch feasts.

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Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Carriacouans community documented

Languages: Grenadian Creole English

What is recorded

  • Carriacou and Petite Martinique are Grenadine islands geographically closer to the Vincentian Grenadines than to mainland Grenada. Carriacou maintains wooden boatbuilding and the Big Drum or Nation Dance, in which specific African nations including Cromanti, Igbo, Manding, Chamba and Temne are named, with food offering and libation. The tradition is recorded as to its existence and significance; ceremonial detail is not reproduced. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

  • related to African Diaspora Foodways documented

    The Big Drum / Nation Dance names specific African nations — Cromanti, Igbo, Manding, Chamba, Temne — with exceptional preservation.

  • related to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Foodways documented

    ⚠ Carriacou and Petite Martinique are Grenadines and are closer to Saint Vincent’s islands than to mainland Grenada.

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