This photograph shows a coiled bracelet found on the wrists of buried skeleton in Barbados. Handler suspects this individual was possibly an Obeah medicine man and likely from the Voltaic region. See image Newton001.

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

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Caribbean--Barbados

"Coiled Bracelet, Newton Plantation Slave Cemetery, Barbados", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 30, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2266