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Members of a Maroon Community - two women, a girl and a man with a drum on his lap.

Elderly members of a maroon community seated in a waiting area. Woman holding a child is standing in the door way.

Members of a maroon community standing next to a dwelling in a rural area.

Two Maroon men perform a dance ritual at a Maroon celebration. One man holds a sugar cane under his chin while the other appears to be communicating with an idol. They are watched by a group of mostly school children.

Seating area where accused Scott's Hall Maroons of St. Mary, Jamaica, would sit while awaiting sentencing for crimes or indiscretions.

Resident of Scott's Hall in St. Mary, showing an arrowroot - an underground tuber popular to the area.

Maroon leader, Cudjoe, making peace with the British in 1738, by a large kindah tree.

Churchgoers congregating outside the maroon church in Accompong, St. Elizabeth.

"Beverley Carey, a Maroon herself and a historian, shows a cutting of Jointa, a bush used by the Maroons in preparing jerk pork. The smoke from the green leaves gives the meat a special flavour."