A Talbe, Islamic priest, Senegambia, 18th century. He wears a turban, strings and armbands, and smokes a pipe. Other men pray behind him. A Talbe, or Moorish Priest in his ordinary dress. 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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