Called Black Caribs by certain historians, the Garífuna people, an ethnic group product of the mixture of African slaves and Indigenous tribes, mainly Arawaks, were among the first deported groups in the Americas. Shipped from St. Vincent to Honduras by British officials as a consequence of their revolts in the 18 th century, the Garífuna continued with their culture across Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Belize until today.

Presented by Archaeologist Doris Zemurray Stone, with field recordings made in the 1950s by Peter Kite Smith, this album gathers the dance music and storytelling, the serenades and sorrows, of a people constituted by a multiplicity from within. “Punta” is only a sample of the creative appropriation of such a varied experience.