#Caribbean

These dancers perform the Landship at the Crop Over Awards ceremony in 2013.

Landship members, accompanied by a tuk band (at far right) performing on the night that Barbados gained independence, 30 November 1966.

The Barbados Landship performing its naval manoeuvres.

The Pinelands Creative Workshop children performing Landship at NIFCA.

Three Views of an Oware game board from Ghana, West Africa.

Barbados, men playing Oware.

Three Views of an Oware game board from Ghana, West Africa.

Oware Board game in Tidjikja, Mauritania.

Two Barbadian master players of Warri in Speightstown.

Matthew Clarke’s Graphic Novel Image of Landships in Third Dimension.

Plantation Fair at the Crop Over festival. An enthusiastic audience looks on as the masked Donkey Man and masked Mother Sally dance to the music of the Bum Drum band.

Special Issue of commemorative stamps for the 1975 Crop Over Festival. This shows a Landship crew dancing the maypole to the music of the Landship tuk band.

Special Issue of commemorative stamps for the 1975 Crop Over Festival. This shows a masked Donkey Man and masked Mother Sally dancing to the music of the tuk band.

A village band at Foul Bay, near Crane Beach, on the south-east coast of Barbados. Photo: Central Office of Information, March 1955. Crown copyright reserved, courtesy of The National Archives, UK.

Villagers in an open space/pasture being entertained by a masked stilt walker and band and a lady dancing to the music,1880s.