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Tap-Tap Bus Painting

Also known as Tap-tap

Tap-Tap Bus Painting: photograph by Greg Gebhardt
Photo: Greg Gebhardt, CC BY-SA 3.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Design a gaudy painted shared-taxi bus with panels, portraits, slogans and patterns, then drive it along a colourful route picking up passengers.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Haiti.

Origins

A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of The Americas: Caribbean.

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