Thursday, November 14, 2019

Hidden Grains

How the Maroon ancestors hid rice grains in their hair

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.

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