Separating Cotton Fiber, Senegal, 1780s
Caption Negresse Battant le Coton au lieu de le Carder (Woman Beating Cotton Instead of Carding it); sitting on a wooden bench, a circular house with conical thatched roof in the background. Villeneuve lived in the Senegal region for about two years in the mid-to-late 1780s. The engravings in his book, he writes, were made from drawings that were mostly done on the spot during his African residence (vol. 1, pp. v-vi).
Image Title
Separating Cotton Fiber, Senegal, 1780s
RegID
SI-OB-620
Date
1780-1790
Title
Separating Cotton Fiber, Senegal, 1780s
Source
Renè Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve, L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: le Sènègal (Paris, 1814), vol. 4, facing p. 181. (Copy in Special Collections, University of Virginia Library)
Language
French
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Western Savanna
Reproduced In
Renè Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve, L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: le Sènègal (Paris, 1814), vol. 4, facing p. 181.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
26-Aug-10
Identifier
VILE-181