It was common for men to do weaving in West African countries. By means of heddle pulleys the weavers separate the warp threads into ‘fans’ by means of foot pedals. Then the weft threads are ‘shot through’ these ‘fans’. Thus, fabric is created. These heddle pulleys were often carved, and with this one, a face can be made out on one of the sides. Often the faces were of goddesses, so the weavers could look at beauty while they work. Baule peoples and their neighbors to the West, the Guro, are famous as weavers, and are known for their fine indigo-and-white cotton fabrics. Scholars have suggested that the prominent display of pulleys, hanging over the weaver’s loom in the public place, afforded artists their best opportunity to showcase their carving skills, in the hope to attract commissions for figures and masks. This figurative pulley with carved a head demonstrates the efforts put by Baule and Guro artists into beautifying the simplest functional object. Sources: Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Highland Folk Museum / El Museo Folclorico Regional de las Highlands de Escocia
The Highland Folk Museum is Britain’s first open air museum. It demonstrates through traditional and living displays how Highland people lived and worked from the 1700s up to 1950. The site is one mile long, and has a working croft, live animals and actors. The Museum is situated in the village of Newtonmore, in the Scottish Highlands; here, there is an abundance of beautiful scenery, with red squirrels found in the forests nearby. El Museo Folclorico Regional de las Highlands de Escocia es el primer museo a cielo abierto establecido en el Reino Unido. Ilustra por medio de las exposiciones tradicionales y vivientes como vivió y trabajó la gente de las Tierras Altas, desde los años 1700 hasta 1950. El lugar tiene una milla de largo, y hay una granja funcionando, animales vivos y personajes. El museo se recogía en el pueblo de Newtonmore en las Tierras Altas; allí, hay una abundancia de vistas y paisaje espectacular, donde se encuentra las ardillas rojas en los bosques.
Part of the collection of the Unst Community Museum. For many hundreds of years Unst has been in the midst of one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. The small wooden boats fished for cod and ling which were cleaned, split, salted and dried on the stony beaches. The dried fish were then shipped abroad in massive quantities. Boats like the sixereen ‘FAR HAAF’ were capable of fishing thirty miles off shore., while sturdy fourereens fished nearer the coast. With the onset of sudden storms there were disastrous results.
Botella Huaco Rey pintada de cara-gollete. Presenta labio adelgazado, gollete de paredes convergentes rectas, cuerpo esférico achatado horizontal, y base pedestal con el fondo ligeramente convexo. Tiene un asa cintada ubicada en la cara posterior, que une la mitad del gollete con el diámetro máximo del cuerpo. La superficie externa ha sido bruñida. El color no es uniforme debido a manchas de cocción. A Huaco Rey bottle with a neck in the form of a face. This object has a neck of straight converging sides with a thin lip. It has a horizontal flattened spherical body, and a pedestal base with a slightly convex bottom. It has a belted handle located on the back side, which joins the half of the neck with the maximum diameter of the body. The outer surface has been burnished. The colour is not uniform across the surface and this is due to cooking and baking stains.
Elaborado en la época Sican (750-1350 AD)
Huaco Rey en Blackware - Blackware Huaco Rey
Botella Huaco Rey de cara-gollete. Presenta labio adelgazado, gollete de paredes convergentes rectas, cuerpo esférico achatado horizontal, base pedestal, y fondo convexo. Tiene un asa cintada ubicada en la cara posterior, que une la mitad del gollete con el diámetro máximo del cuerpo. La superficie externa ha sido bruñida. El color no es uniforme debido a manchas de cocción. A Huaco Rey bottle with a neck in the form of a face. It has, a neck of straight converging sides with a thin lip. It has also a horizontal flattened spherical body, and a pedestal base with a convex bottom. It has a belted handle located on the back face, which joins the half of the neck with the maximum diameter of the body. The outer surface has been burnished. The colour is not uniform across the surface and this is due to cooking and baking stains.
Human femur, part of the collection of the National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago. The National Museum and Art Gallery was established originally as the Royal Victoria Institute (RVI) in 1892 in commemoration of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and as part of a general British Colonial policy to build cultural institutes throughout the Commonwealth. This is a general museum that has a permanent collection of over 10,000 items. Many of these are displayed in seven major galleries- Art, Social History, Natural History, Economic History, Petroleum and Geology.
This site celebrates Intangible Cultural Heritage - the practices, representations and expressions that are central to the lives and identities of communities, groups and individuals across Scotland. In its many and varied forms from cultural festivals to beliefs to passing on traditional skills, it is a means by which humans interact with their natural environment, make sense of the world around them and connects contemporary life to that of past generations.
ICH Sctoland, Museums Galleries Scotland (MGS)
Image from inside traditional Brucan house
Image from inside an open traditional Brucan house
An image of a Cuerno de toro, a Bull horn
Image of a female figure made out of a gourd and straw
An image of a Brucan weaving loom with a traditional pattern
An image of a Brucan wooden mask in a traditional style
An image of a canasta tejida, a woven basket from Boruca
Image of a decorated Amerindian Cassava Grater
Image of "Barbara" by Karl Broodhagen Terracotta bust
Image of Boruca from road outside museum
Image of Brucan community member holding a traditional mask
Image of building associated with museum
Image of outside building associated with the community museum
Image of community member being interviewed
Image of community members interviewing and filming each other
Image of community member standing beside stone sphere
Image of community member standing next to the stone sphere at the museum
Image of community member talking to students in museum
Image of community member speaking to students inside the community museum
Image of a decorative bowl made out of a gourd
Image of gourd bowl decorated with symbols
Image of Iron ball used to chain enslaved peoples
Image of metal eyelets for hanging prisomers cots
Image of jail cell eyelets different angle
Image of metal jail cell eyelets from another angle
Image of "Margaret's Head" by Karl Broodhagen terracotta bust
Image of community museum sign on the side of the museum
Image from path through Boruca at sunset
Image of students around a 360 degree camera next to a waterfall
Image of symbolic tree inside the museum
Image of symbolic tree inside the community museum
Image of taburete de armadillo, armadillo stool
Image of the Museo Comunitario de Boruca sign
Image of the front entrance of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society
Image of the Stone Sphere with camera and tripod
An image of the Bola de peidra during the process of photogrammetry
Image of waterfall outside of Boruca that is tied with traditional stories and myths
Image of a woven blanket in traditional pattern
Una réplica de incensario utilizado en rituales indígenas. A replica incense burner was used in indigenous rituals.
Indian Caribbean Museum of Trinidad and Tobago
The Indian Caribbean Museum of Trinidad and Tobago in Waterloo, on Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. The museum is dedicated to preserving the history of Indo-Caribbean culture.
Introduction to the Production of Windrush
Introduction and clips from Windrush. 2018 Barbados Community College Michelle Hinkson-Cox Co-ordinator for the Theatre Arts Programme at BCC Students Brianna Gibbs Danielle Sanson Dylan Collymore Malaika Croney Melissa Hunte Rayna Garnes Romario Cottoy Richenda Harewood Selena Williamson Tamina White Research and written source material Kaye Hall Barbados Museum & Historical Society
The iron ball was part of punishment for enslaved people in Barbados. The ball would be fastened to a short chain that was shackled to an enslaved person’s legs. The enslaved person would have to continue labour whilst shackled to the ball, which could weigh from 8 – 10 lbs. Digitized by Toni-Q Harris during the 2018 BMHS 3D Photogrammetry Summer Intensive
Jamaica's Heroes Wedgwood mug, part of the collection of the National Museum of Jamaica. The National Museum Jamaica is the national agent for the collection, preservation and documentation of Jamaica’s material culture and aims to stimulate serious research and reflection on Jamaica’s history and contemporary life.
James is an internationally recognised business leader with operational experience in the media and environmental industries, public office, alongside expertise in SME business start-ups and management. In 1996, he was Britain’s first Black CEO of a publicly quoted company, Epic Interactive Media and was awarded the CBE for services to the Sussex Economy. He was the longest serving Chairman of South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), Honorary Consul for South Africa for South East England, and a member of the FCO Caribbean Advisory Group, created to increase links with the West Indies and the Caribbean Diaspora in the UK. Currently, he is Executive Chairman of Drenl Ltd, which focuses on developing 1-10 MW Power & Energy facilities using waste and biomass as the fuel. Jim has created Drenl to address the power generation challenge that exists globally. This will be particularly useful to island states, such as his native Barbados, which spend a large proportion of their GDP on power production. Jim is passionate about economic development and the role that power and waste can play in the circular economy. Power is needed to drive economic development and waste is a resource that should not be overlooked in our efforts to develop without destroying our planet. His charitable work has included raising over £2million for the Rocking Horse Charity for the Children’s Hospital in Brighton, and ‘Work This Way’ which rehabilitated prisoners through training and preparation for work, the most effective way of stopping reoffending. He was Chairman of the Arundel Festival, a charity that put on one of the largest and best attended Art Festivals in England
Jarro de cerámica con incrustaciones - Inlaid ceramic jug
Jarro de cerámica de base plana, con una franja en sobrerelieve a la altura del cuello, donde se le han incrustado 7 fragmentos de loza blanca refinada decorada con motivo “Blue Willow”. Presenta asa en arco de correa. Recuperada en Cocule, comuna de la Unión, en 1968. Ceramic jug with a flat base, with an embossed stripe around the neck, where 7 fragments of refined white earthenware decorated with the “Blue Willow” motif have been embedded. It has a strap bow handle. Recovered in Cocule, commune of the Union, in 1968.
Jarro de cerâmica - Pottery pitcher
Arremessador de louça comum romana (século III), produzido na oficina de cerâmica romana da Quinta do Rouxinol (Seixal) e usado para servir líquidos à mesa. O objeto está completo. Está decorado com linhas cruzadas polidas. Roman common ware pitcher (3rd century), produced in the roman pottery workshop of Quinta do Rouxinol (Seixal) and used for serving liquids at the table. The object is complete. It is decorated with burnished crossed lines.
Jarro de metal esmaltado - Enameled metal jug
Artefacto de hierro esmaltado, empleado como tetera que es parte de un juego de té infantil (compuesto por tetera con tapa, azucarero con tapa, lechero, 4 tazas con sus platos y bandeja, total 14 piezas). Fueron propiedad de Emilia Balde Schilling, abuela de la donante Johanna Saelzer Roeschamnn. Enameled iron artifact, used as a teapot that is part of a children's tea set (consisting of teapot with lid, sugar bowl with lid, milkman, 4 cups with their plates and tray, total 14 pieces). They were owned by Emilia Balde Schilling, grandmother of the donor Johanna Saelzer Roeschamnn.
Jarro pitrén/ Metawe - Striped Pitcher
Jarro asimétrico de forma anfibiomorfa. Presenta asa puente. Su color es rojo decorado con técnica negativa mediante ahumado de color negro. La pieza se encuentra restaurada. Asymmetric jug with an amphibiomorphic shape. It has a bridge handle. Its color is red decorated with negative technique through black smoked. The piece is restored.
Artefacto cerámico de diseño rojo sobre blanco, de cuello largo evertido y dos pequeñas asas en la parte superior del cuerpo. De uso doméstico. Fue donado en el tiempo en que se hizo la haciendo la carretera. Ceramic artifact of red on white design, with an everted long neck and two small handles on the upper body. For domestic use. It was donated at the time the road was made.
Pioneer of British rock during the 70s; singer/songwriter, Joan Armatrading is credited with being the first black female singer/songwriter to gain prominence on the British music scene. She offered a unique take on folk and reggae that was highly influential to artists like Tasmin Archer and Tracy Chapman. Born in St Kitts in 1950, she moved to Birmingham with her family when she was eight, where she taught herself to play piano and guitar. She began her career playing small sets of her own music at local clubs as a teenager. While touring with a production of Hair, she met Pam Nestor, who became her writing partner and the two collaborated on material that later featured on her first album. After this, Joan went solo and released Back to the Night. Her first commercial success was with her self titled release in 1976, and she followed that with 1977's Show Some Emotion and 1978's To The Limit. Armatrading's loyal cult following has kept her touring and recording for more than 25 years. Her classic songs - Love and Affection, Drop the Pilot, Me, Myself and I have earned her Grammy nominations. She has also accumulated 18 gold records, and 10 platinum records in her career, as well as critical acclaim. She is also in the enviable position of choosing her own touring and recording timetable.
John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE (born 7 November 1963) is an English former professional footballer and manager, who currently works as a commentator and pundit for ESPN and SuperSport. A fast, skillful left winger, Barnes had successful periods at Watford and Liverpool in the 1980s and 1990s, and won 79 caps for England. Born and initially raised in Jamaica, the son of a military officer from Trinidad and Tobago and a Jamaican mother, Barnes moved to London with his family when he was 12 years old. He joined Watford at the age of 17 in 1981 and over the next six years made 296 appearances for the club, scoring 85 goals. He made his debut for England in 1983 and four years later joined Liverpool for £900,000. Between 1987 and 1997 Barnes won the then top-flight First Division twice and the FA Cup twice with Liverpool, scoring 106 goals in 403 matches. By the time of his last appearance for England in 1995, he had played more times than any other black player. His brilliant solo goal against Brazil in the Maracana Stadium in 1984 marked his arrival at international level. His dazzling and intuitive play made him a firm favourite with the Kop at Anfield during his stay with Liverpool and in 1993/1994 John was installed as Liverpool club captain. Under the management of Graeme Souness and Roy Evans, John moved from playing on the wing to central midfield where his vision and passing ability established him at the centre of Liverpool's exciting young team.
Born and brought up in superlative St George, John was educated at St Giles School, then Combermere High School, representing Combermere at first team level in Barbados first division cricket competition. In 1964, he migrated to the UK under London Transport’s recruitment scheme to work on the Underground as a guard. The BBC invited him to play in its cricket team, where he joined two other Barbadians, Rodney Norville and the late Dr Bertie Clarke. At this stage he bowled genuinely fast and Dr Clarke recommended him to Hampshire to play county cricket. A serious back injury brought an end to his County career, after which he moved back to Barbados briefly. An offer to return to the UK and go to Lancashire to play as professional in League cricket saw him leave Barbados for the second time. League cricket was much less stressful, playing just at weekends rather than seven days a week at County Level. In his mid-thirties and with his playing career coming to an end, he joined the English First Class Umpires Panel, where he was employed for twenty seven years. In 1988, history was made when he was appointed to stand in his first Test match, at Lord’s. He was the first black person to stand in a Test match in England. The following year while umpiring he became part of the first neutral umpires, when he was chosen to officiate in the Test series in Pakistan with India. In total he stood in eleven Tests, twenty three ODI’s and several finals. He became a full member of MCC in 1999, going on seven tours with teams to Kenya (twice), Greece, Italy, Uganda, Namibia and the Cayman Islands. He was also a member of MCC’s Laws working Party, a panel which drafts the laws of cricket worldwide. In 2008 the ICC appointed him as a Regional Umpires Performance Manager with responsibility for Europe, the Caribbean and the Americas, a post he held until his decision to retire at the end of 2010.
White kaolin clay ball tobacco pipe, partial bowl and heel/spur. Decorated with star shapes in relief on both sides, with a vertical feather/leaf pattern down the length of the bowl on two sides. The artifact was found in church village; it is unknown who would have used the pipe, as the village was home to a mixed community of enslaved people and poor whites. It is unknown where the pipe originated, but the shape of the pipe resembles pipes found at archaeological sites in England and on other Anglophone Caribbean islands. The star relief pattern resembles patterns found in the Bahamas. The pipe was likely used pre-Emancipation in Barbados. Photographs and metadata completed by Kaya Hill, Brown University History of Art and Architecture A.B. candidate 2018, during a visit to BMHS.
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Born in Barbados but raised in Reading, Karen has been in media for 22 years and is currently Chairperson of MediaCom, the largest media agency in the UK with billings over £l billion. Prior to this Karen was CEO for 5 years. Karen has been instrumental not only in the success of MediaCom, but in championing diversity throughout the advertising and media industry. In 2012 Karen launched the first ever Government backed Apprentice Scheme for the sector, where the apprentices qualify for an NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) in Marketing and Communications. In June 2014, Karen received an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours and in 2015 Karen was the first business woman to be named Britain’s Most Influential Black person in the Power List. In 2015 Karen was appointed as one of four external advisors to help diversify the Civil Service, and as a DIT (Department for International Trade) Business Ambassador for No 10. Karen is also a Non-Exec for Creative England whose’ focus is to support new and emerging talent in the Creative Industry helping grow the UK Economy. In March 2016 Karen became the President of NABS, the advertising industry charity which focuses on health and wellbeing in the workplace and presenting the business case for Diversity.
Pipa ceremonial de forma antropomorfa, elaborada de piedra talco. Encontrada en el sector norte del fortín Curiruka. Anthropomorphic ceremonial pipe, made of talc stone. Found in the northern sector of the Curiruka fort.
Kreol West Indies unveils thousands of objects of Creole heritage by mixing works by renowned contemporary artists. It's also the logo of a fun clothing line ... Come and be surprised ... there are two locations: Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante!
Cuerno Kull-kull. Objeto de tradición mapuche. Artefacto aerófono confeccionado de una asta de res. De uso ceremonial en Nguillatunes y Machitunes. Tiene una escotadura en la punta, formando una boquilla. Kull-kull horn. Mapuche tradition object. Aerophone artifact made from a beef horn. For ceremonial use in Nguillatunes and Machitunes. It has a notch at the tip, forming a mouthpiece.
Quaint museum featuring African art, history & exhibits relating to the local slave trade.
Lâmpada de cerâmica - Pottery lamp
Candeeiro romano completo, feito de barro caulinítico, usado para iluminação na época romana, produzido na oficina de cerâmica romana da Quinta do Rouxinol (Seixal) (entre a segunda metade do século IV e o início do século 5). A lâmpada tem uma forma elíptica e um tanque fechado. Complete roman lamp made on kaolinitic clay, used for lighting in roman times, produced in the roman pottery workshop of Quinta do Rouxinol (Seixal) (between the second half of the 4th century and the beginning of the 5th century). The lamp has an elliptical shape and closed tank.
La Pagerie (Maison Familiale de l'Impératrice Joséphine)
The Leeds Carnival, also called the Leeds West Indian Carnival or the Chapeltown Carnival, is one of the longest running West Indian carnivals in Europe, having been going since 1967. The carnival is held in the Chapeltown and Harehills parts of Leeds every August bank holiday weekend. Attendance is estimated at about 150,000.
Leicester Caribbean Carnival is an annual event, held in early August in Leicester, England.
Lennox Claudius Lewis was born in Stratford, London on 2 September 1965 to Jamaican parents. Lewis made his professional debut at The Royal Albert Hall, in England on June 27, 1989 and proceeded to seize 20 victories - 17 being by straight knockouts. While focusing on his career as a boxer, Lewis decided to put something back into the community and in 1994/5 opened up The Lennox Lewis College in east London. He wanted to create opportunities for young black people, especially males, whose inherent talent often went unrecognised. Unfortunately it has recently closed due to lack of support from the appropriate authorities. However, during its lifespan a number of young people benefited from being associated with it. His illustrious career heightened, when in March 1999 he fought Evander Holyfield to gain the three international title belts. The fight was declared a draw, which was seen as a travesty by most of the boxing fraternity, including Lewis himself. On 13 November 1999 he defeated Holyfield. Finally his quest to unify all three championship titles - the IBF, WBA and WBC - had been attained, making Lewis the second British born boxer in 100 years to hold all three belts. In recognition, Lewis has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of North London for his services not only to sport but also the community in the education of disadvantaged young people. Regarded as the corporate world's 'most wanted' endorser, he recently launched his own line in fashion wear. Along with Muhammad Ali and Rocky Marciano, Lewis's name is recognised the world over.
Comedian and one of the founders of comic relief, born on August 29th 1958 in Dudley, West Midlands to a Jamaican family, Lenworth George Henry shot to fame in 1975 aged just 17. After doing impressions to amuse his classmates as a child, Lenny won a place on the TV talent show 'New Faces', doing a Frank Spencer impersonation. He won, and was subsequently offered numerous contracts including those he took up, The Fosters and Tiswas (1975). From there he joined the touring 'Black and White Minstrel Show' alongside 'blacked up' whites. After 5 years he left, admitting "I'd like to do anything else rather than that" and went on to star and write alongside Tracey Ullman in 'Three of a Kind' (1981), through which Lenny first met TV producer Paul Jackson who introduced him to the Comic Strip team. He hosted the pilot 'Saturday Night Live' in 1985 which starred French and Saunders as well as Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmonson. Later that year he performed at the Edinburgh Festival and starred in the second series of 'The Lenny Henry Show'. Lenny's impression of Steve Martin in 'Lenny, Live and Unleashed' led to interest in his comedy from across the Atlantic, and he was offered a three film deal for £1.75m from Disney which began with the film 'True Identity'. The film flopped at the box office and Lenny's contract was subsequently terminated. Lenny has worked for Comic Relief for almost 15 years, and is now a key member of their fundraising team. In 1993 he wrote a serious letter to newspaper The Times protesting against government cuts in foreign aid. Lenny also spends a lot of his time helping young, black comedians start their careers, particularly through his production company Crucial Films. After creating the series 'Chef' he encouraged the producers to hire more black workers on set, and as a result the programme is made with many black crew members. He won a Royal Television Society Silver Award medal for outstanding contributions to multi-ethnic programming in the UK, through his production company Crucial Films.
The letter from the Front is dated 10th August 1917, and was sent to his brother Edward Tull-Warnock. The Mark note and the Ammunition box top were included in the letter, and were picked up during Walter's foray into No-Man's-Land, as described in the letter. The title of Phil Vasili's biography of Walter, All the guns in France couldn't wake me, comes from a section in the letter where Walter is describing just how exhausted he is, after his days at the Front.
Linford Christie was the greatest sprinter Britain produced, an athlete who emerged onto the scene at a late stage in life for an athlete and carved out an unique niche. Jamaican born Christie was the middle child of seven. He came to Britain when he was seven and lived in Shepherd’s Bush. Though he left school when he was 16 and had a different number of jobs, sport always held a place in his heart and he was coached at the West London Stadium near his home by Ron Roddan, who remained his mentor for his whole career where he ran for Thames Valley Harriers. His 23 major championships medals, which included 10 golds, is a British male record along with his 26 national titles, and he was, and arguably still is, among the most famous sportsmen in the country. His two greatest moments came within a year of each other, when he won the Olympic 100m gold medal in Barcelona in 1992 before winning the World title in Stuttgart 12 months later. Whenever he ran, you could not help but be drawn to the drama his races would produce and more often that not a story would emerge from the edge he would bring to an occasion.
Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in 1952 in Chapelton, Jamaica. He moved to London in 1963 to be with his mother and went on to read Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He joined the Black Panther movement in 1970, organising a poetry workshop and working with Rasta Love, a group of poets and percussionists. He joined the Brixton-based Race Today Collective in 1974. His first book of poems, Voices of the Living and the Dead, was published by the Race Today imprint in 1974. His second book, Dread, Beat An' Blood (1975) includes poems written in Jamaican dialect, and was released as a record in 1978. He is widely regarded as the father of 'dub poetry', a term he coined to describe the way a number of reggae DJs blended music and verse. Johnson maintains that his starting point and focus is poetry, composed before the music, and for this reason he considers the term 'dub poetry' misleading when applied to his own work. He recorded several albums on the Island label, including Forces of Victory (1979), Bass Culture (1980), LKJ In dub (1980) and Making History (1984) and founded his own record label - LKJ - in the mid-1980s, selling over two million records worldwide. In 1977 he was awarded a C. Day Lewis Fellowship and became Writer in Residence for the London Borough of Lambeth. Race Today published his third book of poetry, Inglan Is a Bitch, in 1980. He worked primarily as a journalist in the 1980s and was a reporter for Channel 4 television's The Bandung File. Tings An' Times: Selected Poems was published in 1991 as both a book and musical recording. He was made Associate Fellow at Warwick University in 1985 and Honorary Fellow at Wolverhampton Polytechnic in 1987. He is a regular broadcaster on radio and hosted an evening of Caribbean music and culture for BBC Radio 2 in October 2001.