Afro-Jamaican Traditions: Ettu, Kumina, Kromanti, Rastafari, and Mento
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1989.8.1
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Homiak, John P. (John Paul), 1947-
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content: John P. Homiak videos of Jamaica
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Videocassettes (4 hours 37 minutes, color sound)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1989
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Videocassettes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Full video record of Afro-Jamaican groups shot in Jamaica preparatory to their participation in the 1989 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Video records aspects of the foodways, ritual, music, and dance of Afro-Jamaican groups in various parts of the island which reflects the influence and borrowings from Yoruba, Congo, and Kromanti sources as well the African influence creole synthesis. Included are an Ettu (Yoruba/Nago) group in western Jamaica; Kumina drumming and kongo (dance) in St. Catherine featuring Imogene Kennedy, a renown Kumina "Queen;" Kromanti foodways, dance, and drumming of the Moore Town Maroons (Portland); chants and drumming by Rastafari of the Nyabinghi order (Cypress Hall, St. Andrew); and music of a popular mento group.

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Dance Ettu Kromanti Nyabinghi kumina Jamaica ; Drumming Ettu Kromanti Nyabinghi kumina Jamaica ; Ritual use of food in Jamaica ; Food preparation jerk pork maroons Jamaica ; Drums construction of Jamaica ; St. Catherine, Jamaica ; St. Andrew, Jamaica ; Hanover (Kingsvale), Jamaica ; Moore Town, Jamaica ; Jamaica ; Caribbean ; Jamaicans ; Maroons Jamaica ; Rastafari Jamaica ; Nago Jamaica