7 year old Kimora Sankar of Kilimanjaro displays the Moko Jumbie dance under the watchful gaze of her tutor, Jeffrey Alleyne, one of the Directors of Kilimanjaro. The presentation was part of the NCC's Traditional Carnival Characters Workshop 2018. | National Carnival Commission of Trinidad and Tobago- NCC

Tradition Thursday. Moko Jumbie The Moko Jumbie is a masked figure walking on tall stilts and dancing in the streets during Carnival. He is said to watch over his village, and due to his towering height, he is able to foresee danger and evil. His name, Moko literally means “diviner” and he would be represented by men/women on towering stilts and performing acts that were unexplainable to the human eye. In one remote tribe, the Moko rises from a regular man's height to the skies fluidly with no h