book chapter

An account of the Island of Guadaloupe

Historie coloniale1 • 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.
Subjects
Speech
Diet
Cannibalism
Adornment
Division of labor by gender
War
Sickness
Death
Revelation and divination
Missions
Postnatal care
culture
Island Carib
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