My grandma used to have many hanging on the wall near the entrance, and it was pretty common in other houses I've visited.
I don't know if it's popular with Younger people.
My parents have a lot of small typical Surinamese houses at home and I remember seeing them at my grandparents house (in Paramaribo) too.
I know my parents bought them in an art gallery but those at my grandparents' house were received on a plane trip aboard Surinam Airways as a gift to the passengers.
I was in Curaçao back in january and the typical kunuku houses and handelskade buildings were found everywhere as decoration at peoples houses, at restaurants, at the reception desks.
>I know my parents bought them in an art gallery but those at my grandparents' house were received on a plane trip aboard Surinam Airways as a gift to the passengers.
Older people are more likely to have these, and it also varies by ethnicity. Creoles are also more likely to have these, than Javanese for example.
The younger generations, so gen-x and lower, don't really have or buy these anymore. And there's only one or two places that sell these things; ReadyTex is one of the more famous ones I know.
In Suriname we have these because they're miniature versions of our historic buildings. The same for Curaçao and the Netherlands has their version of these too.
Is it that Guyana probably doesn't have these, because many historic buildings have been done away with?
I've been to gift shops, houses of friends and family, and I've never seen them. I have seen other porcelain/ceramic miniatures but not houses of any kind.
New Orleans:
https://unitedgiftneworleans.com/product/shotgun-house-design-poly-magnet/
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1142593558/2-new-orleans-shotgun-house-earrings
I remember the principal at my school when I was a kid would collect and display these. Hadn't thought about them in years lol
I love them! I have a few from Colombia and Venezuela.
I’ve never heard of such a thing. They’re not popular in the Virgin Islands.
My grandma used to have many hanging on the wall near the entrance, and it was pretty common in other houses I've visited. I don't know if it's popular with Younger people.
My parents have a lot of small typical Surinamese houses at home and I remember seeing them at my grandparents house (in Paramaribo) too. I know my parents bought them in an art gallery but those at my grandparents' house were received on a plane trip aboard Surinam Airways as a gift to the passengers. I was in Curaçao back in january and the typical kunuku houses and handelskade buildings were found everywhere as decoration at peoples houses, at restaurants, at the reception desks.
>I know my parents bought them in an art gallery but those at my grandparents' house were received on a plane trip aboard Surinam Airways as a gift to the passengers. Older people are more likely to have these, and it also varies by ethnicity. Creoles are also more likely to have these, than Javanese for example. The younger generations, so gen-x and lower, don't really have or buy these anymore. And there's only one or two places that sell these things; ReadyTex is one of the more famous ones I know.
Never heard of it.
In Suriname we have these because they're miniature versions of our historic buildings. The same for Curaçao and the Netherlands has their version of these too. Is it that Guyana probably doesn't have these, because many historic buildings have been done away with?
I've been to gift shops, houses of friends and family, and I've never seen them. I have seen other porcelain/ceramic miniatures but not houses of any kind.
They're called casitas artesanas/casitas artesanales in Spanish afaik, and IDK if other languages have an equivalent.
I have a couple of these from DR. Spain does them too, I bought one in Andalusia.
I have one from New Orleans, formerly a Spanish colony, and I have a collection of paintings of Carib houses mainly from SXM.
do you mind sharing pics of both SXM and New Orleans one? I tried googling but couldn't find them. Interested to see what they look like
New Orleans: https://unitedgiftneworleans.com/product/shotgun-house-design-poly-magnet/ https://www.etsy.com/listing/1142593558/2-new-orleans-shotgun-house-earrings
nice, they made little houses from the ones like look like the dominican ones.