Shak Shak Tree
Here’s a photo of the Flamboyant tree or Royal Poinciana ablaze with colourful flowers on Provo. I mentioned in a previous post that the Junkanoo band often has many percussion instruments that include the shak-shak. This instrument is like a maracas and at one time, the seed pods of the Royal Poinciana or Flamboyant tree were used as a shak-shak in the Turks and Caicos Islands. I thought this was interesting as I didn’t know what a shak-shak was.
Marta