Free negroes in Hayti.
In a scene of cannibalistic ritual, drums are beaten and a tambourine is played by half-naked men and women as an infant is sacrificed and its head mounted atop a spear. In the background seated around a fire, a woman is licking her fingers and a man can be seen gnawing on a human arm.; Reprinted in the 1880s from original plates created by Volck in the 1860s. Set titled Confederate War Etchings and published by Porter & Coates. This is plate 27.; Adalbert Johann Volck originally published this print under the pseudonym V. Blada.
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