book chapter
An account of the Island of Guadaloupe
Historie coloniale • 1 • Published In 1929 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-26 [Original: 45-74 ]
By: Breton, Raymond, la Paix, Armand de, Turner, Thomas.
Abstract
This work was apparently based primarily on the information collected by Father Raymond Breton, a French missionary in the Lesser Antilles in the seventeenth century, whose Carib-French dictionary has been edited and processed for the files (see 2: Breton), but whose other early writings on the Caribs are not available except as rewritten by later authors. This source includes brief ethnographic notes on Carib traditional origins, their temperament, language, religion, dress and ornaments, foods, family organization, houses and boats, daily occupations, drinking parties, trading, warfare and weapons, diseases and practices related to death.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Missionary
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- George R. Bedell ; 1958
- Field Date
- 1635-1647
- Coverage Date
- 1635-1656
- Coverage Place
- Dominica and Guadeloupe
- Notes
- By Raymond Breton and Armand de la Paix
- Translation of: [Relations de l'Ile de la Guadeloupe]
- The original French text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by Thomas Turner in 1958
- LCSH
- Black Carib Indians