Etymology of ‘Barbecue’

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(1) Stuart Jay Silverman, Letter to editor: Summertime Is Here. Economist, June 6, 2015
www.economist.com/news/letters/21653590-letters-editor
(Barbacoa was an Arawak Indian word for an interlaced frame of wood supported on posts and used either to sleep on or to preserve meat and fish by drying. [through] Spanish it [the word] entered English as ‘barbecue’ ”)

Note: Arawak
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arawak
(the term "Arawak" has been applied at various times to the Lokono of South America and the Taíno [who lived in the Caribbean])

(2) barbecue
en.wikipedia.org/?title=Barbecue
(section 1 Etymology)

(3) I fail to find an image of Araak or Taíno doing barbacoa. What I find is that of Floridians.
(a) Meathead Goldwyn, Barbecue Defined. AmazingRibs.com, undated
amazingribs.com/BBQ_articles/barbecue_defined.html
(an engraving caption: "A barbacoa is shown here in a 1583 engraving by Theodore deBry [sic; should be "de Bry] based on a 1564 painting by Jacques LeMoyne, a French explorer in Florida"

sidebar to the right of text: "The word barbacoa was brought to Europe by Spanish explorers and it first appeared in print in Spain in the 1526. Even though the word originally meant a structure, not the food or the method, it expanded to include both in Europe.

(b) Jacques le Moyne
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_le_Moyne
(c 1533 -1588; a French artist; "Le Moyne accompanied the French expedition of Jean Ribault and René Laudonnière in an ill-fated attempt to colonize northern Florida. They arrived at the St Johns River in 1564 * * * His drawings of the cultures commonly referred to as the Timucua (known through their reproduction by the Dutch publisher Theodor de Bry) are largely regarded as some of the most accessible data about the cultures of the Southeastern Coastal United States")