Male and Female Clothing Styles, Gold Coast, late 17th cent.
Showing men, dressed in equipage of war (with weapons) and women (one carrying a child), these illustrations having drawn them myself for the satisfaction of the curious, accompany Barbot 's detailed description of the dress, jewelry, and hair styles of peoples on the southern Gold Coast (pp. 236-237). Barbot was Agent-General of the Royal Company of Africa. See also P.E.H. Hair, Adam Jones, and Robin Law, eds., Barbot on Guinea: The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1992).
Image Title
Male and Female Clothing Styles, Gold Coast, late 17th cent.
RegID
SI-OB-588
Title
Male and Female Clothing Styles, Gold Coast, late 17th cent.
Source
John Barbot, A Description of the coasts of North and South-Guinea . . . Now first printed from his original manuscript, In Awnsham and John Churchill (compilers), Collection of Voyages (London, 1732), vol. 5, plate 21, p. 237. (Copy in Library Company of Philadelphia; also, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic
Reproduced In
John Barbot, A Description of the coasts of North and South-Guinea . . . Now first printed from his original manuscript, In Awnsham and John Churchill (compilers), Collection of Voyages (London, 1732), vol. 5, plate 21, p. 237.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
LCP-49