River Navigation in Equatorial Africa
From the Loango Coast region, this image depicts Du Chaillu being paddled by in a canoe flying an American flag. Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (c. 1831–1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first European to confirm the existence of gorillas and the Pygmy people of Africa's Central Interior region.
Image Title
River Navigation in Equatorial Africa
RegID
SI-OB-634
Date
1850s
Title
River Navigation in Equatorial Africa
Source
Paul B. Du Chaillu, Explorations & adventures in equatorial Africa (London, 1861), facing p. 199. Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--West Central North
Reproduced In
Paul B. Du Chaillu, Explorations & adventures in equatorial Africa (London, 1861), facing p. 199.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
DuChaillu-199