A Fulani Village, West Africa, 1809
Captioned, Cabanes et Temple des Phylans [Fulani], shows a woman and small child (foreground), another woman milking a cow (center foreground), with conical thatched roof houses in an apparent forest setting. The engraving is an artists idealized/romanticized rendition of a Fulani village in West Africa. In volume 3, the author discusses the habits and customs of African groups represented in Saint Domingue (Haiti), including the Phylans (pp. 160-171), but he does not specifically describe this illustration.
Image Title
A Fulani Village, West Africa, 1809
RegID
SI-OB-567
Date
1809
Title
A Fulani Village, West Africa, 1809
Source
Michel Etienne Descourtiz, Voyage d'un naturaliste (Paris, 1809), vol.1, facing title page. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Language
French
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--St. Domingue
Reproduced In
Michel Etienne Descourtiz, Voyage d'un naturaliste (Paris, 1809), vol.1, facing title page.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
JCB_05686-1