Forged metalwork and woven items from Senegambia, 18th century. Horse’s bit, spade and napha or portfolio. After Rene Claude Geoffroy de Villeneuve’s L’Afrique, Paris, 1814. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving from Frederic Shoberl’s The World in Miniature: Africa, A description of the manners and customs Moors of the Sahara and of the Negro Nations, R. Ackermann, England, 1821.

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Size: 3564px × 6300px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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