Sranantongo maroons, descendants of runaway black slaves from the jungles of Surinam, with a very large "bofru" as they call their Tapir (Tapirus terrestis) they hunted. Image taken in the 1885-1915 period, Dutch Guyana (n. Surinam). The Maroons are largely of west African descent that established themselves in the Central and this case South American mountains and jungles around colonial plantations they ran away from amd wage war with in the 17th-18th century. They continued to live in tribal villages in a similar manner to their African ancestors and heritage. Today, they remain the largest ethnic group in Surinam along with the Creoles, formerly Dutch Guyana.
