Here are a few from my adopted Jamaican hometown of Accompong Town St. Elizabeth taken during the January 6th Celebration of Cudjoe's Birthday.
Maroons from all over the World come home to Accompong Town for the Celebration. After a solemn ceremony over the graves of their ancestors, they climb the hill to the Kindah Tree to begin the Celebration.
Drumming and dancing to traditional songs plus the eating of unsalted pork, roosters and male yams as the traditional homage to those that came before and those that will come after begins.
At the appointed time, the procession marches from the Kindah Tree though town and down the hill only to return to the Parade Ground to finish the Celebration through the night.
A short video of the drumming and dancing.
