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 a close up of the torso see image Newton001a. 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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Newton001

Caribbean--Barbados

"Skeleton and Burial, 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/2267