The Trunk

What’s in the trunk? In fact what on earth is this strange looking item? I took this photograph of what we call the trunk from my parents home on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The trunk was a very familiar item to many African Caribbean families in the 60′ and 70′s. Our parents would tell us stories of the items stored in the trunk which either accompanied them on their sea voyage from the West Indies or became a permanent feature in their family homes in the UK.

Today’s Visual Writing prompt invites you to write about what may have been stored in the trunk by someone travelling from the Caribbean in the 1960′s? If you were to open it what would you find?