Foot Soldiers and Cavalry, Bornu, Northeastern Nigeria, 1860

Caption, Panzerreiter und Bogensch¸tz aus Bornu (rider in armor and bowman from Bornu). Shows a soldier carrying a bow, with a quiver of arrows on his back, conversing with horse- mounted soldier with lance and armor.

Image Title

Foot Soldiers and Cavalry, Bornu, Northeastern Nigeria, 1860

RegID

SI-OB-671

Date

1860

Title

Foot Soldiers and Cavalry, Bornu, Northeastern Nigeria, 1860

Source

Hermann Wagner, Schilderung der Reisen . . .Eduard Vogel in Central-Afrika (Leipzig, 1860), p.16

Language

German

Item sets

Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture

Spatial Coverage

Africa--Central Savanna

Reproduced In

Hermann Wagner, Schilderung der Reisen . . .Eduard Vogel in Central-Afrika (Leipzig, 1860), p.16

Researchers

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

Last Updated

18-Jan-11

Identifier

wag-1