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Jamaica's Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Maroons
Educational poster highlighting traditional Maroon practices such as: blowing of the abeng, drumming, dancing, craft items such as baskets or bankra and the jerking of pork (bottom right).
Dance of the Birds from LTM Pantomime 1960-1961
Actors dressed in costumes depicting birds, doing the 'Dance of the Birds' in a scene from the LTM National Pantomime 1960 - 1961.
Aladdin proposing to the Princess in the presence of the Emperor, Empress, Mayor, etc.
A scene from the LTM Pantomime, Aladdin, showing Aladdin proposing to the Princess in the presence of the emperor and empress (at right) and other cast members.
Scene from Moonshine Anancy
Members of cast of the LTM Pantomime 'Moonshine Anancy' performing a scene. Ranny Williams is at the forefront and Louise Bennett is dressed like a police. Stage props are on the stage.
La Figure des Moulins
An artist's impression of the activities involved in the manual production of sugar using an outdoor mill operated by oxen. The slaves are putting the sugarcane into the mill, the juice then goes into the cauldrons at the side to be boiled. Men can…
Windmill on a Jamaican sugar estate 1763
An artist's impression of a windmill on a Jamaican sugar estate in 1763.
Interior of a boiling house
The interior of a boiling house showing enslaved African men using very long ladles to tend to the sugar being boiled while being supervised by a white overseer. To the left of the room are two trays of processed sugar while to the rear in a…
Trelawny Town, the chief residence of the Maroons
An artist's impression of Trelawny Town, the chief Maroon settlement, showing roads and dwellings with mountains in the background.