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Impressive products, but slow business at Amerindian village
Valentine Stoll and some of his sculptures
Valentine Stoll has some of the most beautiful and unique wood sculptures on show, but not many have seen it.
It is quite the same story for the others who have come out to exhibit their products and get sale at the Amerindian Village at the Sophia Exhibition Complex, Georgetown.
The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs organised for the Amerindians to showcase their products over six days at the Village in celebration of Amerindian Heritage Month. The exhibition starts from 11:00a.m and has just two days left, but the Amerindians have not seen the worth in it yet.
This might simply be just a bad location, if one only were to judge from Stoll’s creations. His sculptures range from depictions of ancient kings and queens to cricketers to native Amerindian hunters. Then, he also has on show the totem poles- symbols of peace.
This is of course, more than just an exhibition and sale. It gives one a chance to experience firsthand how the Amerindians make a living, even if it involves payment in, frankly, liquid form.
Take the alcoholic drink “fly” for example. Marjorie Rodrigues is able to get wood to bake her cassava bread and boil “black potato” to make “fly” only because she hires two men and pay them by providing a hot meal and “fly.”
She has brought bottles upon bottles to sell at the Amerindian village, but business has not been brisk.
Rodrigues, an Arawak Amerindian from Moruca in Region One, three years ago started the Acquero women’s Group. It consists of eight women who make cassava bread, casareep and fly for sale.
Claire Haynes, from Mabaruma, also in Region One, even bought pure honey from Region Nine to sell at the Amerindian Village, but she said business has been slow.
Stoll, Rodrigues and Haynes are hoping, as do the other exhibitors, that the last two days at Sophia will prove to be more fruitful.
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