Losing our Masks: Traditional Masquerade and Changing Constructs of Barbadian Identity
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.
Mr. Harding burns at the end of the Crop Over festival.
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.
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