Diorama of a Carib Camp
Also titled Diorama van een Caraïbenkamp
Gerrit Schouten (Paramaribo (stad), 1779–1839)
1810
- Medium
- paper, wood (plant material), glass
- Classification
- diorama
- Dimensions
- height 49 cm x width 69 cm x depth 22 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This diorama shows daily life in a settlement of Caribs, one of Suriname’s original population groups. The men are building a hut or returning from hunting, the women tend to the food and children. On the right, they make bread from cassava, a root vegetable. Baskets are brought ashore from the korjaal, a boat. The woman standing under the roof at the right may be a Maroon, who had fled from one of the plantations.
