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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Photo: African Spirit Bundle Found; Hints at U.S. Slave Ritual


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An African spirit artifact found in Annapolis, Maryland, would likely have looked like this when it was made roughly 300 years ago.

If Yoruba in origin, the bundle likely represents Eshu Elegba, right, the god of the crossroads.

Brian Payne, University of Maryland