Calinda
Calinda (also spelled kalinda or kalenda) is a martial art, as well as a kind of folk music and war dance in the Caribbean which arose in the 1720s. It was brought to the Caribbean by Africans In the transatlantic slave trade and is based on native African combat dances.
Calinda, dance of the Negroes in America, 1783, watercolour by François Aimé Louis Dumoulin | |
| Also known as | Kalinda, kalenda |
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| Focus | Stick Fighting |
| Country of origin | Trinidad and Tobago Jamaica |
| Parenthood | Old Kalenda |
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