This photograph shows a buried skeleton extended on its back in situ with copper bracelets on each arm and a pipe bowl on the pelvic area. Handler suspects this individual was possibly an Obeah medicine man and likely from the Voltaic region. For full view of skeleton see image Newton001. For more detail on the items found on this person see images Newton002-Newton007.

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

English

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Caribbean--Barbados

"Torso, 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/2541