Rice Granary
The author does not appear to describe this granary in his text, but the image shows people storing rice and threshing it. Rice was one of the staples of Madagascar in the mid-nineteenth century. William Ellis (1794–1872) was an English missionary and author, who went to Madagascar on three occasions in the 1850s.
Image Title
Rice Granary
RegID
SI-OB-1049
Date
1850s
Title
Rice Granary
Source
William Ellis, Three visits to Madagascar during the years 1853-1854-1856 (New York, 1859), p. 314. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Madagascar
Reproduced In
William Ellis, Three visits to Madagascar during the years 1853-1854-1856 (New York, 1859), p. 314.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
ellis314