Untitled Image (Scenes of West African Life)
This image depicts different scenes. The text in the images states "comme les singes portent des enfans sur les arbres" or "how monkeys carry their babies in the trees;" "habillement des circoncis" or "dress of circumcised young men;" "Negre jouant du balafo" or "Negro playing the balafon." Otherwise, the image shows conical house with thatched roof. The 1698 English edition (London) contains this image, but facing p. 33, while the 1699 Amsterdam edition contains a similar, albeit derivative and not identical copy (facing p. 45). The image of a "Negre Jouant du Balafo" is in Jean Baptiste Labat , Nouvelle Relation de l'Afrique Occidentale (Paris, 1728), vol. 2, facing p. 332.
Image Title
Untitled Image (Scenes of West African Life)
RegID
SI-OB-1074
Date
Late-1600s
Title
Untitled Image (Scenes of West African Life)
Source
Francois Froger, Relation d'un Voyage fait en 1695, 1696, & 1697 aux Cotes d'Afrique. . . Bresil, Cayenne & Isles Antilles (Paris, 1698), facing p.45. Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library; also The John Carter Brown Library.
Language
French
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Rivers
Reproduced In
Francois Froger, Relation d'un Voyage fait en 1695, 1696, & 1697 aux Cotes d'Afrique. . . Bresil, Cayenne & Isles Antilles (Paris, 1698), facing p.45.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
FROG-45