Chief and Soldier with Weapons, Sierra Leone, early 1820s
Caption, A Sangara Soldier (left), A Sangara Chief (right), showing clothing styles and weapons; the bow and spear are their principal warlike instruments (p. 372). Country of Sangara, on western part of Niger river, in Western Sierra Leone, where the author traveled in the early 1820s.
Image Title
Chief and Soldier with Weapons, Sierra Leone, early 1820s
RegID
SI-OB-596
Date
1820-1830
Title
Chief and Soldier with Weapons, Sierra Leone, early 1820s
Source
Alexander Gordon Laing, Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima countries in Western Africa (London, 1825), facing p. 371. (Copy in Library Company of Philadelphia)
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Rivers
Reproduced In
Alexander Gordon Laing, Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima countries in Western Africa (London, 1825), facing p. 371.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
LCP-29