The diorama captures a du celebration—an event held by enslaved communities in Suriname, often several times a year and deeply valued as both performance and social release, to such an extent that banning it could provoke unrest or work stoppages. Schouten constructed these detailed scenes using local materials, sometimes incorporating imported crate wood, and this particular piece may have travelled directly to France, where it was fitted with a contemporaneous frame in the 1830s. The central structure features an open-sided thatched hut alive with dancing figures, led by the afrankeer, a respected narrator and symbolic figure within the du, flanked by musicians and elaborately dressed dancers. To the far right stands a man in red, likely depicting an authority figure or 'king', dressed in Dutch-provided garments, beside a hunter armed with traditional weapons, marking the layered hierarchy within this plantation setting.