Artifacts found at a former plantation in Texas include healing tools from West Africa.
Date: 1988
A collection of animal bones, shells, beads, feathers, and small leather bags that may have contained roots, leaves, and powders are found in the walls of a surviving "slave quarter" at the Jordan Plantation in East Texas. They are likely tools used by West African Yoruba "diviners" for healing.
Similar caches of traditional healing and spiritual objects have been found in plantations all across the South.