Image Number

• FA5080

Year

• 1990

Date Note

• Photographed in February 1990.

Series Title

• General: Folklife collection
• Specific: Folklife Collection Series S1664, Florida Folk Festival Fieldwork and Program Planning and Documentation Files, 1990: Folklife Area-Ethnic Celebrations-Caribbean Carnival-Negatives, Contact Sheets (Riki Saltzman) ; Box 1, FF31

General Note

• Rara is a celebration that follows Carnival in Haiti. A Rara band consists of a wide range of percussion and wind instruments, and may include rattles, conch shells, and "found" instruments such as car springs.
• The group was performing at Martin Luther King Park in Miami.

Rights

• 

Photographer/Personal Author

• Saltzman, Riki, Collector.

Physical Description

• 1 photonegative - b&w - 35 mm.

Subject Term

• Musical traditions, Latin American and Caribbean
• Musical traditions
• Domestic arts
• Personal adornment
• Clothing, Latin American and Caribbean
• Musical traditions, Haitian
• Ethnicity, Latin American and Caribbean
• Ethnicity, Haitian
• Songs, Ethnic
• Songs, Haitian
• Arts (Performing)--Florida--Miami-Dade County--Miami
• Musical instruments--Haiti
• Music--Performance
• Musical instruments
• Percussion instruments
• Instrumentalists
• Musicians--Florida--Miami-Dade County--Miami
• Male musicians--Florida--Miami-Dade County--Miami
• Haitian American musicians--Florida--Miami-Dade County--Miami
• Haitian American entertainers--Florida--Miami-Dade County--Miami
• Performing arts--Florida--Miami-Dade County--Miami
• Bells

Geographic Term

• Miami (Fla.)
• Miami-Dade County (Fla.)

Personal Subject

• Renault, Ricky.

Subject Corporate

• Konbo Guinyn (Musical group)

Shelf Number

• Shelf number: S1664B1FF31.

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