This document provides an overview of the indigenous and Afro-Caribbean music and folklore traditions of Honduras. It describes several indigenous instruments of the Lenca people like "El Candú", "El Pitero", and "Torito Pinto". It also outlines the Garifuna ethnic group and some of their instruments such as the sacabuche, caramba, carrizo silbador, maracas, raspador/guira, and caracol. The document also mentions folklore traditions like the Wuanaragawua dance ceremony of the Garifuna people and the fertility ritual dance called "La punta".

1. Honduras’ Music and folklore
Lic, Marly Dubon
Designed for primary
school, translated to
english

2. Indigenous ethnic
Native or Aboriginal Music
Much has been studied about Lenca music, traditions, as well as other original groups
of the pre-Hispanic tribes.
El Candú“
• "El Pitero“
• * "Torito Pinto“
• * "Flores de Mimé,
• Bananero"

3. "La Tusa
*Cachazas con Leche
*El Tropezón
*La Estaca
*La Lima
*El cascareño
*La picota
*La Polka de las Rosas

4. Garifuna, Caribbean or Negroid ethnic
The Garífuna are an ethnic group descended from Africans and Carib
and Arawak aborigines, originating from various regions of the
Caribbean.

5. Instruments
EL Sacabuche
It is composed of a wooden tube or gourd,
closed at one end by a leather
pierced by a rod or rope.
La Caramba
It is made up of a large arched stick joined at its ends by a
rope.

6. Instruments
El Carrizo silbador
Used by the indigenous people of Intibucá,
has a mouth similar to that of the clarinet, it is
accompanied
Generally by drums.
Maracas
They are made of gourds, pierced by a wand.

7. Instruments
Raspador o guira
It is an instrument made of tin similar to a
thermos and is played with an afro comb.
El caracol
As its name indicates, it is made from the shell
of the snail;
it is a wind instrument.

8. Instruments
Caramba
This instrument is made up of a large arched
stick, joined at its ends by a string, which is
struck by the person playing it with a wand so
that it sounds, a gourd serving as a sounding
board..
La marimba
The marimba is an auditory percussion instrument, which
consists of a series of wooden sheets of different sizes, arranged
from largest to smallest, it is a wind instrument.

9. Folklore
Folklore: It is an expansion of the town in which it
reveals its feeling through customs, legends,
songs, dances, poetry, traditions, etc. The word
Folklore means KNOWING OF THE PEOPLE.

11. Wuanaragawua - Mascaro - Iyancunu
Dance Ceremony and warrior ritual
Wuanaraguwua, Caribbean
linguistic term that means
man in disguise. The dance
arose from the historical fact
(1763) when the Garifuna
people demanded equal
rights from the English and
Caribbean slavers.

12. La punta
Fertility ritual dance
Symbolic ritual dance of
fertility, whose purpose is to
prevent the spread of the
species. This is expressed
by cadenced movements
of the hip, giving pelvic
blows head-on.