Untitled Image (Portraits from the Voltaic Region)
This engraving shows six portraits including hairstyles, facial decorations and jewelry. Jean Barbot (1655-1712) was a French explorer and merchant. Employed by the Compagnie du Senegal, Barbot documented two voyages along the coast of West Africa, then across the Atlantic to the Caribbean in 1678-1679 and 1681-1682.
Image Title
Untitled Image (Portraits from the Voltaic Region)
RegID
SI-OB-900
Date
1679
Title
Untitled Image (Portraits from the Voltaic Region)
Source
Jean Barbot, "Journal du Voyage de Guinée, Cayenne, et Illes Antilles de L'Amerique. . ." British Library, MS 28788, 22 Oct. 1678 - 24 Sep. 1679.
Language
English
Item sets
Portraits & Illustrations of Individuals
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic
Reproduced In
P. E. H. Hair, Adam Jones and Robin Law, Barbot on Guinea (1678-1712), 2 vols. (London: Hakluyt Society,1992), vol. 1, p. cxv; vol. 2, fig. 44.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
2007; 29-Aug-19
Identifier
Barbot003