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| | Garifuna |
 | | The dance is said to have been started by both the Creole and Garifuna during encounters at mahogany camps where they were forced to work, and the intent was to mock their white slave owners (Palacio 1993,14). |
| | Other traditional dances are defined as: “the Charikawi- a mimed dance where a hunter meets up with a cave man and a cow, and the Chumba-a highly poly-rhythmic song, danced by soloists with great individualized style”(S. Cayetano, 2). |
| | While many of the song and dance styles mentioned above are uniquely Garifuna based, none of them emit the echoing tidal wave of African ancestry like Garifuna ancestral rites and ceremonies do. |
| www.clas.ufl.edu /users/afburns/afrotrop/Garifuna.htm (1661 words) |
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