An African-Type Healer/Diviner and His Grave Goods: A Burial from a Plantation Slave Cemetery in Barbados, West Indies

摘要: An adult male buried in the late 1600s or early 1700s and excavated from a plantation slave cemetery Barbados had cemetery's richest assortment of grave goods: an iron knife, several types metal jewelry, earthenware pipe, necklace money cowries, fish vertebrae, dog canine teeth, European glass beads, large carnelian bead probably India. Most these artifacts are unique to New World African descendant sites. The individual was African-type diviner/healer whose high status community is reflected his relatively elaborate artifact inventory.