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
At the time of first contact between Europe and the Americas, the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean included the Taíno of the northern Lesser Antilles and most of the Greater Antilles, including the
Painting of a Carib family from Saint Vincent
Burning of Hatuey, a Taíno chieftain. From a bas-relief of the portal of El Capitolio of Havana
Taíno reenactment in Puerto Rico