Kalinago
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The Kalinago, also historically known by the exonyms Island Caribs or simply Caribs, are an Indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. They may have been related to the Kalina of South
Carib family (by John Gabriel Stedman 1818)
Drawing of a Carib woman (1888)
Greenstone ceremonial axe. From shell midden, Mt Irvine Bay, Tobago, 1957.
A Family of Carib natives drawn from life, by Agostino Brunias, c. 1765 – 1770s
Human cannibalism
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Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal. The meaning of "cannibalism" has
Kalinago
…period, the Kalinago had a reputation as warriors who raided neighbouring islands. According to the tales of Spanish conquistadors, the Kalinago were cannibals who regularly ate roasted human flesh. There is no hard evidence of the Kalinago eating human flesh, though one historian points out it might have been…
Enemies being killed and roasted by the Tupinambá in South America, watched by the naked German captive Hans Staden. Engraving by Theodor de Bry (1592).
Survival cannibalism during the Russian famine of 1921–1922
Sketch of the Mignonette by Tom Dudley. In English common law, the R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) case banned killing others to eat them after maritime disasters, which had been a widely accepted custom of the sea.
A Yali man from Western New Guinea. Historical accounts describe warfare-related cannibalism directed against enemies (exocannibalism) among the Yali, with reports of such practices continuing into the 1970s.