Short Stemmed Clay Pipe, Newton Plantation Slave Cemetery, Barbados

Description

This photograph shows a clay pipe found on the pelvic area of a skeleton. This pipe likely originated from the Voltaic region and probably came to Barbados via the Atlantic slave trade. See image Newton001.

Source

Jerome S. Handler, "An African-Type Healer/Diviner and his Grave Goods," International Journal of Historical Archaeology 1, 2 (1997): p. 91-130.

Language

English

Rights

Image is in public domain courtesy of Jerome Handler. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

Newton006

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--Barbados

Item sets

Religion & Mortuary Practices

Citation

"Short Stemmed Clay Pipe, Newton Plantation Slave Cemetery, Barbados", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed June 6, 2023, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2270

This photograph shows a clay pipe found on the pelvic area of a skeleton. This pipe likely originated from the Voltaic region and probably came to Barbados via the Atlantic slave trade. See image Newton001.