The Women of Timbo Drawing Water
This image shows a group of Timbo women drawing water from a spring or brook and carrying filled pottery vessels back to village; shows clothing and hair styles. Timbo is in the Fuuta Djallon highlands in the Upper Guinea Coast hinterland, around headwaters of the Niger River. Brantz Mayer (1809-1879) was an American author and prominent journalist. His book was written from the journals, memoranda and conversations he had with Captain Theodore Canot (1804-1860), who was a French-Italian adventurer and slave trader. Canot mostly traded between the Upper Guinea Coast and Cuba.
Image Title
The Women of Timbo Drawing Water
RegID
SI-OB-667
Date
1850s
Title
The Women of Timbo Drawing Water
Source
Brantz Mayer, Captain Canot; or, Twenty years an African slaver. . . (New York, 1854), facing p. 178. Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Rivers--Timbo
Reproduced In
Brantz Mayer, Captain Canot; or, Twenty years an African slaver. . . (New York, 1854), facing p. 178.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
canot-4