How the Maroon ancestors hid rice grains in their hair
Channel: Tinde van Andel
Date: 24/05/2018

Edith Adjako, of Maroon descend, shows how her female ancestors hid rice grains in their hair when they escaped from slavery and fled into the Suriname forests. Filmed in July 2017 by Alice Bertin, in St. Laurent du Maroni, French Guiana. Interview by Tinde van Andel, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. This video was made during the research project Maroon Rice, sponsored by the National Geographic Society, grant nr. GEFNE 184-16.