Trinidad and Tobago Carnival
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The Trinidad and Tobago Carnival is an annual event held on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday in Trinidad and Tobago. This event is well known for participants' colorful costumes and exubera
Members of a costume band parade on the streets of Port of Spain
Historic Trinidadian carnival costume at the British Museum
A Music Truck entertains the crowd on the streets. Trucks are an integral part of the street parade, featuring live performances or deejays
Moko jumbie characters
Calinda
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Calinda is a martial art, as well as a kind of folk music and war dance in the Caribbean which arose in the 1720s. It was brought to the Caribbean by Africans in the transatlantic slave trade and is b
Calinda, dance of the Negroes in America, 1783, watercolour by François Aimé Louis Dumoulin