A Muslim Marabout, Senegal, 1780s

Caption, Talbe, pretre maure, ou marabout (Talbe, a Moor priest, or marabout); he is wearing various amulets and holding a very long-stemmed pipe; men praying in the background; also a house. 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). The same illustration appears in color in the English translation of Villeneuve; see Frederic Shoberl (ed.), Africa; containing a description of the manners and customs, with some historical particulars of the Moors of the Zahara . . . (London, 1821), vol.1, facing p. 63.

Image Title

A Muslim Marabout, Senegal, 1780s

RegID

SI-OB-624

Date

1780-1790

Title

A Muslim Marabout, Senegal, 1780s

Source

Renè Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve, L'Afrique, ou histoire, moeurs, usages et coutumes des africains: le Sènègal (Paris, 1814), vol. 2, facing title page. (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. 2, facing title page.

Researchers

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

Last Updated

25-Aug-10

Identifier

VILE-factitle