The villages of La Grace, Piaye and Laborie in the southwest area of Saint Lucia were known for a unique song-dance called the "koutoumba". The "koutoumba" was only performed for the death of a "djiné", a person descended from Africans who came to the island in the middle of the 19th century. The "koutoumba" is unique among Lucian folk dance in that it is performed by a sole dancer and using only two to four lines of text, which is evocative of the song's atmosphere rather than narrative. The last drummer who knew this tradition died in 1986.