Weapons Used by the Gold Coast Negros
This engraving depicts weapons including swords, shields, bows and arrows, spears, knives, daggers and axes. Some of these items were also used in agriculture. The reference to Gold Coast suggests the Voltaic 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
Weapons Used by the Gold Coast Negros
RegID
SI-OB-822
Date
1745-1747
Title
Weapons Used by the Gold Coast Negros
Source
"Plate LXX" in Thomas Astley (ed.), A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, vol. 2 (London: Thomas Astley, 1745-1747), facing p. 693.
Language
English
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic
Reproduced In
Derived from a larger engraving based on the late seventeenth century voyages of Jean Barbot and published in Awnsham Churchill and John Churchill, Collection of Voyages, (London: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill, 1732).
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
9-Aug-10; 21-Aug-19
Identifier
Astley017