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Gardens dancers performing Kumina

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"Kumina: Members of the Kingston-based Garden Dancers go through their routine of Kumina, an African folk drum dancer (once used to invoke spirits at receptions) in the Hell Fire Club of the Hotel Rose Hall Inter-Continental. Morvin Brooks, 1973…

Professor Efrain Paesky, chief of the OAS' Technical Unit on Music and Professor Rex Nettleford

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"Professor Efrain Paesky, Chief of the OAS' Technical Unit of Music, and Professor Rex Nettleford, Artistic Director of the NDTC, in the control booth at the recent session in Kingston at which the NDTC singers recorded 19 Caribbean folk songs for an…

A traffic cop at work

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A traffic police directing traffic.

Policemen

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Jamaican police officers on desk duty.

Ms. Pauline Petinaud in African flavor dress

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"Sister P - Pauline Petinaud and her associated have taken over the Trans-Caribbean [Ironshore] beach and are busy puttin together a village with a distinct African flavour. Called the Damali Aitoro Village, the concept is to create an atmosphere of…

Hyacinth Harrison - crash survivor

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"Hyacinth Harrison - one of the few people in the back of the bus who escaped alive, tells her story to the Daily News' Roxroy Richards from her bed in the May Pen Hospital."

Jamaica College team 1912 Inter-Secondary Schools Championship Sports

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Members of the Jamaica College Track and Field Team for the 1912 Inter-Secondary Schools Championship Sports.

Miss Trelawny, Sonia Steele

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Sonia Yvonne Steele, a 19 year old contestant in the Miss Trelawny beauty contest.