Title

Steel Pan Band Greeting Tourists at the Customs Department

Photographer

Preview

Uniform Title

The Bryant Slides Collection

Photo Description

Steel pan music is most often associated with Trinidad and Tobago, where the art form originated, but the music is also popular in Barbados. Steel pans are made from oil drums that have had the drum head shaped with slopes and slants to make music note sounds. These drums have been painted blue and yellow to reflect the Barbados flag colors. This steel pan band includes a musician using shak-shaks (similar to maracas), which is a hollow rattle used in the Lesser Antilles. Cockspur Fine Rum box, pictured, has been produced in Barbados since 1884, when Danish seaman Valdemar Hanschell created the rum, which is distilled from fermented molasses. The cruise terminal, pictured, would contain departments to manage cruise passengers, such as Immigration and Customs. Slide labeled Barb 8.

Keywords

Barbados -- Description and travel Ocean liners -- Barbados -- Bridgetown Automobiles -- Barbados -- 1960-1970 Visitors, Foreign -- Barbados

Date Original

1968-02

Format

image/jpeg

Size Original

35 mm

Place

Barbados -- Caribbean region -- Bridgetown, Saint Michael

Identifier

DP0003455

Identifier (Genre)

Transparencies

Rights

All rights to images are held by the respective holding institution. This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. For permission to reproduce images and/or for copyright information contact Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida Libraries, (407) 823-2576

Collection

Barbados Slides

Link to Descriptive Guide

https://scua.library.ucf.edu/repositories/4/resources/105

Recommended Citation

"Steel Pan Band Greeting Tourists at the Customs Department" (1968). British West Indies Barbados Slides. 14.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/bwi-slides-barbados/14