"If culture is the reflection of a society, why then have our card players until now had to make do with playing cards from the Western world, whose faces always depict white kings, queens and jacks?
In Surinarne the question has been asked and the graphic designers of "ART DESIGN" have given an answer - no, created an answer to it. You are looking at it now: playing cards from Suriname. Or, as the graphic designers call it: a cultural experiment.
The traditions which have been passed on from generation to generation in the abundance of cultures in Suriname provided fertile ground for designing a series of Black, Amerindian and Asian kings, queens and jacks. The Amerindians, Bushnegroes, Indians and Javanese have been concretized in this pack of cards, together with aspects of their culture, such as dress, articles of use and rituals."

¨  "The Amerindians are the oldest inhabitants of Suriname.
ª  African negroes brought to Suriname as slaves were the ancestors of our bushnegroes.
§  After the abolition of slavery contract workers were imported from India to meet the shortage of labourers.
©  At the end of the last century the Javanese came from Indonesia to Suriname, adding one more element to the diversity of cultures peculiar to Suriname."