Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Riou's staff is a French husband and wife doctor team, seven Swiss missionary nurses and ten Haitian nurses. The hospital spends $1,000 a month, half from donations, half from patients who can pay (those who cannot are treated anyway). Its beds are always filled; 60 outpatients are treated daily, and there is a waiting line...
...leaves from his dangerously infected foot and applying proper treatment. There are other superstitions. Once Riou asked a mother whether she had given her seriously sick baby medicine the hospital had provided. "No, Father," she replied. "Why not?" he asked. The cryptic reply: "He's not baptized yet." Haitian peasants consider a child before baptism only a brute animal on which medicines would be wasted. Riou gave the infant medicine on the spot, made an appointment to baptize...
Tense Moments. An anthropologist's job is especially tough in northern Haiti. Many grown Haitians there have never seen a white man. Afro-Haitian (voodoo) gods sometimes command their worshipers to remove strangers, like Barker, posthaste from the premises. But mustachioed Paul Barker, a former merchant seaman, chemist and Baptist minister, somehow managed to get along. On the northern seacoast near Port Paix, a local landowner and amateur ethnologist-who is also a voodoo potentate-helped Barker excavate the townsite where the gold pendants were found. Tense moments came when it was reported that the god Dambala had ordered...
...townsite near the shore looks very much like the place that Columbus described. Its 1,000-odd houses probably sheltered 15,000 inhabitants, and there were many smaller settlements nearby. Dr. Barker and his Haitian helpers found stone tools, fishing sinkers and a probable ball court, as well as the two gold pendants...
Stumped by the Stones. Even more interesting anthropologically is a cave found on the nearby island of Tortuga by Clement Manigat, a Haitian working for Dr. Barker. It must have been either a ceremonial burial cave or a place for cannibal feasts, possibly both. In it Dr. Barker found human bones that had been broken so that their marrow could be eaten. Other bones were engraved with the faces of gods. There were earthen pots that had perhaps been used for religious or cannibalistic rituals. Dr. Barker is especially stumped by 64 human gall and kidney stones. What this...