Drawing:
Stickfighter, early 1900s.
Drawing:
Stickfighter, early 1900s.
Stickfighters engaged in combat during the Carnival season to the accompaniment of drumming and singing in French Creole. This stickfighter is dressed in the fine costume of a "neg jardin," a masquerade associated with nineteenth-century festivities.
Shell Trinidad Magazine, September 1959.
Courtesy of Errol Hill.