Seafaring Kalina (Carib) canoe-traders and raiders of the Venezuela-Guianas coast, from the Orinoco delta to French Guiana, whose name gave Europeans the word 'cannibal'; Kalina communities endure today from Sucre state to Cayenne.
First touched by Columbus in 1498 and the early pearl and slave trade, then ground down by encomienda and mission after Cumaná (1515) and Caracas (1567); resistance under chiefs like Guaicaipuro broke by the 1570s, yet Kalina and other peoples endure across Venezuela and the Guianas today.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Kalina (Carib) — the shape you scrub through changes in 900 · 1498 · 1515 · 1601.
Documents the early pearl-coast and slave trade that ground down the coastal Carib and Arawak peoples of Venezuela.
Survey reference covering the Carib (Kalina) and Arawak (Lokono) peoples of the Caribbean coast and Orinoco (broad reference).