Hester Merwin Carib Indian drawings
MS 7294 Hester Merwin Carib Indian drawings
NAA MS 7294
This collection contains 10 color portrait drawings, undertaken circa 1940 by artist Hester Merwin Ayers, depicting Carib Indians in Salybia, Dominica. Subjects include men and women.
Manuscript 7294, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Salybia is the administrative center of the Carib Territory, a 3700 acre district in Dominica which was established in 1903 for the descendants of the indigenous Carib people who inhabited Dominica prior to European colonization and settlement.