Photograph of Francina Illeus, aka 'Ti-Femme', taken around 1980. Illeus was declared dead in Haiti in 1976 and buried, only to reappear near her home village in 1979, alive.
This photo is taken from Wade Davis' 1988 book Passage of Darkness: the Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie, page 76.
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