Caption, Mandingo Neger (Mandingo Blacks). Two Mandingo soldiers (?) in full regalia with swords and knives; both wear protective amulets.
Mandingo Soldiers, Western Africa, 1860
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Mandingo Soldiers, Western Africa, 1860
Hermann Wagner, Schilderung der Reisen . . .Eduard Vogel in Central-Afrika (Leipzig, 1860), p. 303.
German
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Africa--Central Savanna
Hermann Wagner, Schilderung der Reisen . . .Eduard Vogel in Central-Afrika (Leipzig, 1860), p. 303.
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
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