On a hot sunny morning, Ringo stood shirtless at his stall at the side of the road close to the entrance to the Blue Lagoon, which marks the Eastern boundary of the San San villas in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His sunglasses, hung from a string around his neck, bounced around on his muscular dark chest. A small knitted black hat, decorated with single red, white, and green stripes and a print of the leaf of the ganja plant, topped a very short hair style. Ringo stretched out his left forearm and shook an array of necklaces draped there, making a swishing sound, then went on to explain: “Yeah man, these are all natural seeds from the mountains.”
Ringo He reached back to his makeshift stall, partially sheltered from the streaming sunlight with a sheet of plastic, and produced a short dried branch, saying “As you can see, this is the wild coffee we use to make the necklaces.” Ringo shifted the branch from his right hand to his left and slid his fingers over the red beads of a necklace. He compared them to those still on the branch, pointing out the red berries on the dried branch. “It’s natural colour. No varnish, no paint, no dye - just natural.”
Here is a video of Ringo showing off his jewelry:
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If you find it difficult to understand Ringo, here is the text from his video:
