Women of Kazegut in Different Dresses; Negros Clim[b]ing up Palm Tree; A Negroe Playing on the Ballard or Balafo; and Hutts of the Negros

This series of engraved four different scenes depicts clothing styles, musical instruments, palm production and housing to represent peoples from the Bissagos Islands (or Bijagós) in the Upper Guinea Coast region. Thomas Astley (d. 1759) was a British bookseller and publisher who never went to Africa. His imagined localities and illustrations of Africa were informed by a library of travel books at his disposal.

Image Title

Women of Kazegut in Different Dresses; Negros Clim[b]ing up Palm Tree; A Negroe Playing on the Ballard or Balafo; and Hutts of the Negros

RegID

SI-OB-810

Date

1745-1747

Title

Women of Kazegut in Different Dresses; Negros Clim[b]ing up Palm Tree; A Negroe Playing on the Ballard or Balafo; and Hutts of the Negros

Source

"Plate VII" in Thomas Astley (ed.), A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, vol. 2 (London: Thomas Astley, 1745-1747), facing p. 278.

Language

English

Item sets

Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture

Spatial Coverage

Africa--Rivers--Bissagos Islands

Reproduced In

Similar images in Jean-Baptiste Labat, Nouvelle Relation de l'Afrique Occidentale, vol. 2 (Paris; Chez G. Cavelier, 1728), facing p. 311 and 332; and vol. 3, facing p. 36; see also "Plate 3" in Awnsham Churchill and John Churchill, A Collection of Voyages, vol. 5 (London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1732), p. 21.

Researchers

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

Last Updated

5-Apr-16; 21-Aug-19

Identifier

Astley005