GROUP FOOD/CULINARY PRACTICES DRESS/ETHNIC RELIGION MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS LANGUAGE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

WEAR/CLOTHING (Festivals, Art, Dance)

INDIGENOUS - Use of cassava and corn in - Use of feathers, - Naturism - Drums - (mamee) apple Dance: - The Hummingbird, imitated
PEOPLE making bread, pone, flour shells - The use of a Shaman or - Flutes - Place names: Arima, other animals
- Smoking of meat/ - Grass clothing and medicine man - Shakers from dried Tunapuna Mucurapo,
Barbecuing (aka Barbacoa) crown of flowers - Smoking tobacco seeds Caroni, Couva, Oropouche, Art and Craft: - Hammock, Canoe,
- Pepper Pot for certain - Use of a zemi Mayaro Nariva, Tamana Bow and Arrow, Pottery making,
- Manicou festivals - Polytheism and Aripo mountains basket weaving
- Agouti - Vision Feast
- Believed in Coyaba
EUROPEANS Escovitch fish Use of Haggis Roman Anglicanism Cuatros Bells Hispanic Francoph Anglophon Festivals: Dance: Dance:
(Spanish, Pastelles wine Irish Catholicism Maracas Dutch one e Christmas, Zouk, Ballroom
French, potatoes Easter Ballet Dancing
English)
Festivals:
In that order Christmas,
Easter

Music:
Classical
Music
AFRICANS - Ground provision - Dashiki - White Rum - Drums - Locho: cheap Dance: Limbo, Jig, Congo, Bele, Bongo
- Wrapping food in banana - Kanga/shawl - Marijuana - Tamboo bamboo - Moo-moo- dumb
leaves - Aso Oke (type of - Hybrid religions (Voodoo, - Influence on steel pan - Douen Festivals: Folklore and oral traditions
- Mortar and pestle hat worn by Pocomania, Mayal, - Congo - Jumbie- Ghost of storytelling, Nine Night, Bruckins
- Yam, ackee Yoruba people) Revivalism, Rastafari) - Abeng Party, Yam Festivals
- Fu-fu, saltfish - Kaftan (female - Animal sacrifices - Xylophone
- Cocoa, peanut robe) - Bamboo fife Art and Craft: Ceramics, carvings and
- Sorrel - Jamaican Banjo sculptures
- Cooking of coo-coo
- Dukuna/ Paime

CHINESE - Use of noodles, watercress - Cheongsam- long - Buddhism Xiao- bamboo flute - Cantonese Dance: Ribbon dance, Lion dance,
- Use of Wok, Chop Sticks dress - Taoism Pipa – stringed lute - Hakka Dragon dance
- Stir fry - Cheongsam- Guzheng – stringed instrument - Chow mein
- Wontons jacket/shirt - Lo Mein
- Chinese fan - Char Sui
INDIANS - Introduction of mangoes to - Dhoti Hinduism: Use of flags - Sitar - Aloo Dance: Kathak, Odissi, Garba dancing
the region - Khurta - Jhandhi - Harmonium - Dhal
- Use of spices like masala - Sari - Cremation - Dholak - Aajaa
and turmeric - Pagri - Deyas - Tabla - Aaji
- Making of roti, doubles, - Orhni - No beef and pork - Tassa - Beta
curried food - Hosay - Beti
- The practice of using halal - Eating halal meats - Bhai/Bhaiya
meats - Behen