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Figure 1 (a) Map of the West Indies; (b) Jamaica showing the location of White Marl.
Figure 2 Stratigraphic layering documented in Excavation Unit T2-11. Photograph by Zachary J. M. Beier.
Figure 3 Spanish silver real recovered from Excavation Unit G3, Level 1: (a) Obverse. Based on minting execution and last two visible digits the coin dates to 1656 (Pradeau, Citation1938: 43–45, pls II, III); (b) Reverse; (c) 1824 button worn by labourers of the British Caymanas Estate located on or near White Marl. Photographs of the coin by Peter E. Siegel and the button by Zachary J. M. Beier.
Images courtesy of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust
Figure 4 (a) Taíno Museum with Zach Beier and Central Village collaborators; (b) Plaque dedicated to Robert R. Howard mounted on the exterior of a museum wall. Photographs by Peter E. Siegel.
Figure 5 (a) Three aerial photographs of the Central Village area showing the increasingly developed landscape and impacts to the White Marl site. White Marl is situated within the oblong box in each of the images. Compiled by Zachary J. M. Beier and figure created by Edward González-Tennant; (b) Drone/aerial photograph facing southwest over the White Marl site, former Taíno Museum, White Marl Primary School, and Lasco corporate complex. The oblong encircles the White Marl site. Drone photo by Zachary J. M. Beier (6 March 2022).
Figure 6 Two ceramic vessels recovered from White Marl: (a) Distinctive star-shaped vessel associated with a burial from Excavation Unit J2, Level 10; (b) Navicular vessel recovered from Excavation Unit K2, Level 10. Contrary to Howard’s (Citation1950) dismal view of Jamaican pre-colonial ‘cultural retardation’ and its residents ‘unimaginative and provincial’ pottery tradition, these vessels evince a rich iconographic and symbolic system encoded in clay pots. Photographs by Peter E. Siegel.
Images courtesy of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust
Figure 7 Four cosmologically charged wooden artefacts from Jamaica: (a) Cemí spoon, 14 cm high, lignum vitae (Guaiacum sp.), Aboukir cave (St Ann Parish); (b) Pelican cohoba statue, 63 cm high, lignum vitae (Guaiacum sp.), Aboukir cave (St Ann Parish); (c) Cemí staff, 150 cm high, Protium or Bursera wood, Aboukir cave (St Ann Parish); (d) detail of the cemí staff; (e) Duho (ceremonial seat), lignum vitae (Guaiacum sp.), cave (St Catherine Parish).
Images courtesy of the National Gallery of Jamaica
Figure 8 Two ceramic effigy vessels from the Dominican Republic in the form of shamans depicted during hallucinogenic trances (Roe, 1997: pls 104, 108). Left: 27.5 cm high, right: 17 cm high. Photographs by Dirk Bakker.
Table 1. STAKEHOLDERS WITH AN INTEREST IN THE WHITE MARL SITE.
Figure 9 Miss Naomi Johnson is a resident of Central Village and member of the Christian Rescue Mission (6 March 2022). Photograph by Peter E. Siegel.
Figure 10 Prior to his investiture as chief, Kalaan was a behique (medicine person). Behique Kalaan is seen here performing a ceremony held during 2019 fieldwork at White Marl.
Figure 11 Mr Selvenious Walters, Technical Director of Archaeology at the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (27 September 2023). Photograph by Peter E. Siegel.
