Clothing and Hair Styles, Senegal, 1850s
Captioned, Negres du Bondou, shows three males and one woman with their clothing, hair styles, jewelry, etc. The woman on the left is identified as Princesse Penda, the man to her right as homme de Boulebane, next is Ministere Tasapatto. On the right is a young boy whose hair is arranged in a fashionable style (jeune garcon, coiffure tres a la mode).
Image Title
Clothing and Hair Styles, Senegal, 1850s
RegID
SI-OB-584
Date
1850-1860
Title
Clothing and Hair Styles, Senegal, 1850s
Source
Anne Raffenel, Nouveau voyage dans le pays des negres, suivi d'études sur la colonie du Sénégal . . . (Paris, 1856), vol. 1, facing p. 72.
Language
French
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Western Savanna
Reproduced In
Anne Raffenel, Nouveau voyage dans le pays des negres, suivi d'études sur la colonie du Sénégal . . . (Paris, 1856), vol. 1, facing p. 72.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
Raffenel3