Dominica

Dominica is home to the Kalinago people and a living Creole culture of music and craft.

Crafts Language & oral Music & dance Food & cooking Building & habitat

Knowledge in this place

Kalinago basketry

Kalinago basketry

Intricate larouma reed baskets woven in geometric patterns by the Indigenous Kalinago.

Kalinago heritage

Kalinago heritage

The oral traditions and remaining words of the Kalinago, the last Carib community of the Caribbean.

Language & oral

Bélè dance

Bélè dance

A creole drum-and-dance tradition performed in flowing dress to tambour rhythms.

Creole bush cuisine

Creole bush cuisine

Dishes built on local provisions, dasheen, callaloo and smoked freshwater fish.

Dugout canoe carving

Dugout canoe carving

The Kalinago craft of carving seagoing canoes from a single gommier tree trunk.

Building & habitat