Saturday Night In Haiti - This is not the Haiti that tourists see. The sophisticated black babies of port cities take their baths in empty, 5-gallon Standard Oil cans. Like this hand hewn through, the cans are used for a variety of purposes, cooking, laundry, bathing and transport. This Haitian woman and her babies are nearly pure Negroid, but many Haitian blacks have Indian blood. Once a French colony, Haiti is now a republic. French is spoken by all-white, black and mulatto. 3 Many native races marry under a system of endogamy. This means a member must marry: Within the tribe ***** husbands: many *****. June 14, 1947. (Photo by The Register & Tribune Syndicate).