Female Clothing Styles, West Africa, 18th cent.

Caption, Femmes de la cote des Esclaves (Women of the Slave Coast). Numbers on top: 1) Femmes de qualité;2) Femmes du Commun; 3) Esclave.

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Image Title

Female Clothing Styles, West Africa, 18th cent.

RegID

SI-OB-593

Title

Female Clothing Styles, West Africa, 18th cent.

Source

M. De La Harpe, Abrége de l'histoire générale des voyages (Paris, 1780), vol. 3, facing p. 269. (Copy in Library Company of Philadelphia)

Language

French

Item sets

Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture

Spatial Coverage

Africa--Western Bight

Reproduced In

M. De La Harpe, Abrége de l'histoire générale des voyages (Paris, 1780), vol. 3, facing p. 269.

Researchers

Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Identifier

LCP-40