Caribbean
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 76 objects associated with the coastal regions and islands of the Caribbean, dating from 1877 to 2002. This collection predominantly comprises objects from Cuba, Barbados, Antigua and St Vincent, with a few objects representing Trinidad, Grenada, Bahamas, Haiti and Nevis Island. It includes jewellery, bags, carved and moulded figures, a broadsheet newspaper from 1828, a candlestick made of seeds, a bowl, and prehistoric shell and stone tools from Lesser Antilles. It is this prehistoric material which forms the largest single acquisition in the collection, purchased in 1890 from Sir Thomas Graham Briggs, owner of Farley Hill Estate in Barbados. The collection also includes contemporary material consisting of ten papier-mâché figures representing Orishas from the Afro-Cuban Santería religion, made by the Havanero artist Filiberto Mora. The Caribbean region comprises more than 7,000 islands, islets, reefs, and cays which form an archipelago that lies to the east of Central America and to the north of South America. This collection reflects strong associations with plantations – with the transatlantic slave trade, subsequent indentured labour and the diaspora populations associated with this region.
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