Mayombo

Mayombo refers to ritualized sticks, objects, or assemblages associated with protection, authority, and combat preparation in the Saint-Domingue resistance archive. They appear most vividly in the context of the 1786 Marmelade conspiracy, where ritual objects circulated through the network coordinated by Jérôme Poteau and Télémaque, and in the tradition of calenda stick-fighting that colonial authorities feared as both military training and spiritual practice.