Posts are coming think and fast at the moment.

With the release of Northstar’s Congregation, The Bokor, the Mambo, and the Houngan make for great Haitian Insurgent Leaders. Wonderful figures and a pleasure to paint.

Hyacinthe was a leader in the Western Province and carried a talisman made of horse hair into battle so I guess a snake is not so far away. The female casting makes for a great representation of the young slave leader, I have given her a republic sash to show her revolutionary tendances.

When insurgent leaders were killed, ceremonies were held in their honour. One insurgent leader was buried by the troops that defeated him. But later „the negroes took him up and buried him again with great pomp“