Knight's estimate). Many of the smaller islands, such as Bar- bados and Antigua, were not perma- nently settled any of the three local Indian groups-the primitive Ciboney; the proud and fierce Carib; or the sophisticated and peaceable Taino Arawak.
The Arawak were farmers and fishers who organized their villages around ceremonial ball courts. They worked gold, turned pottery, fashioned sculpture, and domesti- cated at least one animal, a type of dog. "They do not carry arms, nor know them,"...