The Aborigines of Trinidad

Bullbrook, J.A., The Aborigines of Trinidad, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Royal Victoria Institute Museum, 1960.

See also: The Aboriginal Remains of Trinidad and the West Indies—ONE, and TWO.

John Albert Bullbrook (1882–1967; born in the Medway area in what was then Kent in South-East England) was an author, archaeologist and archaeological historian, who went to Trinidad in 1913 as a petroleum geologist. He began his archaeological career in 1919, pioneering the search on the indigenous population of Trinidad. By the early 1930s, he already provides evidence of the prominence of reflections on the indigenous history of Trinidad, and on the figure of the Carib, in some of the élites’ writings of local history.