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... eight or ten young girls marching before a man dressed up in a mask with a grey beard and long flowing hair, who carried the model of a house on his head. This house is called the Jonkanoo, and the bearer of it is generally chosen for his superior...

A Tour Through the Island of Jamaica: From the Western to the Eastern End ... - Sida 26
efter Cynric R. Williams - 1826 - 352 sidor
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Publications of the Folk-Lore Foundation, Utgåva 1–8

1922 - 576 sidor

...corruption of gens inconnus because of the masks worn in the dance. Williams asserts that the custom is "certainly a commemoration of the deluge. The custom...and religious, although the purpose is forgotten." 1 do not recall if it is this same writer who calls the house "an emblem of Noah's ark" and derives...

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