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This record was last updated on 16 Nov 2012
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Image Reference
B72_extended
Source
Handler, personal slide collection (copyright, Jerome Handler)
Comments
View of extended skeleton on its back in situ; copper bracelets on each arm and pipe bowl on pelvic area are visible; possibly an Obeah man/medicine man. For details on this burial and its associated artifacts, see Handler, An African-Type Healer/Diviner and his Grave Goods, International Journal of Historical Archaeology (1997), Vol. 1, pp. 91-130.
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